Having sacked the party chairman, David Davis, while Mr Davis was on holiday last year, Mr Duncan Smith applied precisely the same treatment in February to the party's chief executive, Mark MacGregor.
And, finally, the summer begins on Memorial Day, a US public holiday which falls on the last Monday in May (after which it is socially acceptable to wear white), and ends on Labor Day, the first Monday in September.
We went back to Kenya with Achieng on what will be her last holiday before 2012.
Seventy-four years later, in 1863, Abraham Lincoln declared Thanksgiving a national holiday on the last Thursday in November.
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Mr. Salvi started selling the plants on crystal-beaded hangers last holiday season to garden centers and other retailers who thought they would be popular decorations.
He chose to keep the Thanksgiving holiday on the last Thursday of the month, however, as it had been for nearly three-quarters of a century.
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Ronaldo had already undergone initial medical tests with the Spanish giants while on holiday in Portugal last month, which the player claimed at the time had gone "perfectly".
Last year, Gov. Patrick signed the sales tax holiday law on July 31, the last day of the legislative session, giving taxpayers two weeks official notice before it started on Aug. 14th.
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Last year the holiday fell on April 11, while Easter festivities will take place on March 27 this year--the earliest since 1989.
Tradition had dictated that the holiday be celebrated on the last Thursday of the month, however, this tradition became increasingly difficult to continue during the challenging times of the Great Depression.
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"He's a friend of mine but I've been away on holiday and just got back in last night, " said Shearer.
It became the number one "Most Desired Gift" on Amazon.com during last year's holiday season and, eventually, a Harvard Business School case study.
The dollar amount the NRF predicts will be spent on the holiday is about the same as last year, suggesting flat consumer activity due to the struggling economy.
Garry Walton was on his first foreign holiday without his parents when he chose to go on a boat trip on the last day of the week-long break.
The holiday of Maslyana usually falls on the last week before the 40-day long fast that precedes Easter.
Its troubles moved markets last week partly because so many traders were on holiday.
In a research project conducted during last year's holiday season and posted on YouTube, Bill Hammack, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, concluded that a single-file line leading to three cashiers is about three times faster than having a separate line for each cashier.
Pauline Annette Edwards, 68, from Buckley, Flintshire, was on holiday in Trefor, Gwynedd, when she was last seen at 1600 GMT on Friday 5 February 2010.
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Last-minute holiday shoppers might jump at discounts on standalone GPS devices like the basic ones from Garmin and Magellan, but those gifts may not get much use, analysts suggest.
Meanwhile in Somerset, the Burnham-on-Sea lifeboat crews dealt with the longest shout of the summer - nearly 18 hours - when they joined the search for four-year-old Dylan Cecil, who drowned last month after slipping from a jetty while on a family holiday.
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Opponents of cash repatriation say that the last time Congress declared a tax holiday, companies held on to the cash, and created few additional U.S. jobs.
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Although money spent on hotel rooms generates a significant amount of economic impact, fans who attended the 2011 Holiday Bowl spent more on food, beverages and entertainment last year.
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More consumers, 17% compared with 12% last year, say that intend to start their holiday shopping on Thanksgiving weekend this year, according to NPD Group.
Ryanair's new strategy is to use the Ayrshire airport more for outbound summer holiday flights, though with this year's capacity down on last year by about 15%.
Nearly four million school days in England were missed last spring and autumn because parents took children out of school to go on holiday.
Seeking to continue its momentum, Wal-Mart is rolling out its holiday layaway plan one month earlier than last year and offering discounts on gasoline for customers who use its branded credit and debit cards through Dec. 24.
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This is based on data from PortalPlayer as well as the simple observation that Apple unveiled its then new iPod photo around the same time last year, and that they'll want to cash in on the same holiday season buzz they did then.
Online retailers had their biggest day ever on Cyber Monday as holiday shoppers drove sales up 30% vs. the same day last year according to IBM.
Mr Mimlitz said he met the FBI and DHS last week to explain that he had taken a call on his mobile phone while on holiday and had been asked to check data held by a water district in central Illinois.
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