But in many European countries the pattern was mixed.

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In fact, the urban middle classes are no more likely to own a business than the poor. (In the countryside, the pattern is mixed.) And even when they own one, their hearts are not really in it.

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But teachers' unions have offered the proposals a mixed welcome, with little support for breaking up the current pattern of holidays.

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