The Tour now spans two weekends in term time, and schools are being encouraged to let pupils line the route when the race passes through their area.
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The fact remains, however, that under the current Education (Pupil Registration) Regulations, schools have discretion "to grant leave of absence for purposes of family holidays" in term time, for up to 10 days a year.
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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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.
But the NUT says Mr Hampson is damaging efforts to persuade parents not to take their children out of school in term-time.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
Another 15% were said to be in full-time, long-term jobs in which a law degree is preferred but not required.
At least in the short term, time and events are not on Mr Orban's side.
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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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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It can maintain strength in its core business, while at the same time invest big time in long-term projects.
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).
Boris Yeltsin and I agreed in principle on this same reduction, and there was no way in the wide world he could get it through the Russian Duma that existed at the time in his second term.
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Many investors underperform the general market over time because in the short-term they make the wrong moves at the wrong time.
Mr. Obama is promising four more years of the same policies he's pursued in his first term, except that this time he says he really will raise taxes immediately in 2013.
Thereby both revenues and profits are inflated in the short term, though it leaves a ticking time bomb in the form of the expenditure that has to be accounted for in later years.
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.
As we discussed in last month Monetary Watch , the recent acceleration in uncovered money substitutes is no longer just about depositors liquidating time and other term deposits in favor of instantly redeemable demand and savings deposits (in Austrian speak, bank depositors liquidating credit claims, raising cash, then depositing and holding that cash in money substitute form with those same banks).
Assessments will be carried out in the shorter term for those claiming for the first time, or whose circumstances have changed in a way that might affect the amount they can claim.
Pretty much a random walk in the short term most of the time too.
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Why force a divide among Republicans on this issue right at this point in time during mid-term elections?
Getting the 1.8 million children back to school in time for the new term is one of the biggest operations the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) has ever undertaken.
Much like they did with Justice Sotomayor, I hope the Senate will move quickly in the coming weeks to debate and then confirm my nominee so that the new Justice is seated in time for the fall term.
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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.
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