But the NUT says Mr Hampson is damaging efforts to persuade parents not to take their children out of school in term-time.
Margaret Morrissey of the National Confederation of Parent Teacher Associations said parents would be angry because they could not take children away for holidays in term time - yet schools could spring closures on them at the last minute.
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Higher Education Minister Bill Rammell said there was nothing new in students taking term-time jobs to supplement their lifestyle, but the abolition of up-front fees from September this year and bursaries for less well-off students would make money less of a concern.
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In fact at ten-to-nine in term time around 20% of traffic on our town centre or city roads is actually on the school run and this causes enormous problems - not only in congestion but also in terms of safety around the school gates.
Regardless of how markets choose to act in the short-term each time a speechifying Fed Governor or John Hilsenrath drops another ice cube in, you should know that the actual QE Exit is a four-step process and will play out over years, not weeks or months.
The size of the raise in the debt ceiling in the near-term (a larger raise in the ceiling buys the politicians more time to create a longer-term deficit reduction plan).
In some cases they are paid for term-time work only, in others they get at least a retainer over the holidays.
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So even if controls on capital outflows can buy time in a short-term panic, it is time bought at a high longer-term price.
"Anyone driving will appreciate the difference in traffic between the holidays and term time - and schools in Hebden Bridge have real parking problems, " says road safety officer, Peter Shepherdson.
America's government, for instance, needs a medium-term plan for deficit reduction, but cutting back spending viciously in the short term at a time of private-sector retrenchment would be a mistake.
How, they ask, can the Fund have long-term involvement in the poorest countries and, at the same time, be a short-term crisis manager?
It can maintain strength in its core business, while at the same time invest big time in long-term projects.
Overlaid on this is the long-term increase in the importance of service and part-time jobs.
Many investors underperform the general market over time because in the short-term they make the wrong moves at the wrong time.
Even with price shocks due to technological changes and rapid globalization, prices in the short-term and long-run were more stable than at any other time in American history.
Ensign, a two-term Republican who represents Las Vegas, took his time in deciding whether to challenge Reid, the two-term Senate Democrat who served as lieutenant governor and in the U.S. House of Representatives.
In other words, near-term options traders have been more put-heavy only 29% of the time in the past year.
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Governments are offering some short-term props to the market: first-time buyers in America are eligible for tax credits on deals that close before the end of November, for example.
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The real problems set in in about five years' time, as a result of long-term growth in health and social security spending.
Structures deteriorate in value over time and long-term construction costs have grown at or below inflation.
Why force a divide among Republicans on this issue right at this point in time during mid-term elections?
Another 15% were said to be in full-time, long-term jobs in which a law degree is preferred but not required.
In that vote, a sitting president managed to increase his party's share of congressional seats in a mid-term election for the first time since 1934.
But payroll service firms objected that imposing such a cap would make it impossible for them to accommodate the short-term tax cut in time for January paydays.
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Whether Roosevelt, Nixon, Bill Clinton or George W. Bush, every second-term president must in time come to grips with the reality that it can't be about just his agenda or just him.
In one sense, the activities are short-term in the sense of being about particular product at a particular time, but relational in the sense that the network itself is long lived.
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Clinton was such an exceptional leader that when he entered office a Gallup poll of public confidence in the economy was at an all-time low and in the summer of 2000, months before the end of his term, that same poll indicated public confidence in the economy at an all-time high.
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Short-term (in this case, three-day) aggression may very well dissipate over time as the players adapt to the style of play and the outward effects level off.
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The longer-term bond will rise in value over time.
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Bulls have the slight near-term technical advantage in gold for the first time in many weeks.
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