On top of this, they were not permitted to have a vacation during the holiday.
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More and more seasonal businesses, often those in the landscaping sector, have started to offer holiday services during an otherwise off-season.
And, for the past three years, small business owners have their kickoff to the holiday shopping season during that same busy weekend with Small Business Saturday.
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Every year since then unofficial races have been organised during the late spring bank holiday by local enthusiasts.
There is no getting around it: All 3 million travelers flying to their destinations during the Thanksgiving holiday will have to pass through Transportation Security Administration checkpoints.
Welsh government policy is that parents should not normally take pupils on holiday during term time but schools have the discretion to grant up to 10 days authorised absence for this purpose.
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During the winter holiday delayed arrivals have fallen from 35% to 27%.
However, health officials said the reduction in GP consulting hours during the New Year Bank Holiday may have affected last week's clinical consultation rate.
The burgeoning demand for smartphones during the holiday season is likely to have propped up the display and chipset divisions as well, helped along by a possible recovery in chipset prices, towards the end of the quarter.
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Officials have been encouraging people to travel during the forthcoming May Day holiday week (China is eager to encourage holiday spending as a way of boosting the economy).
Analysts who were hammering Circuit City during last year's dismal holiday season have generally praised McCollough's turnaround plan, which resulted in 42 relocated stores where sales growth outperformed their unmoved counterparts by 29% last year.
They are deemed usable during the Passover holiday, though not kosher for human consumption, and have the endorsement of the venerable Chicago Rabbinical Council.
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And early indications suggest that after a relatively good Thanksgiving, the November holiday during which US end-of year spending really kicks off, consumers have throttled back.
During the 2012 holiday season alone, more than 90, 000 visitors will have the chance to tour the White House holiday decorations, all hung with care by a team of crafty staff and volunteers.
As we remarked in a late December 2011 post, federal judges have no qualms with keeping lawyers, reporters, legal commentators, and other interested parties busy during the holiday season by releasing decisions in high-profile cases.
Even during peak holiday travel periods, adults, of course, outnumber children on planes, and airlines have to balance the needs of parents with other passengers whose nightmare is a long, crowded flight next to a noisy child.
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