With this year's holidays being just around the corner, it's only natural for companies to start tempting potential customers with cash-saving, too-good-to-pass deals.
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His father was a British consul in Moscow in 1935-38, and Norman's summer holidays from school were spent there at the height of Stalin's purges.
Unite's Brendan Gold said it was not their intention to ruin people's summer holidays.
Mr Kerviel's limited holidays and late nights should also have raised red flags.
But January's run-off falls in the middle of Chile's summer holidays.
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Even though the amount of total paid time off is about average for the European Union, some years, more than half of Spain's public holidays can fall in the middle of the week.
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At country music star Tim McGraw's house, the holidays are a time to celebrate his mother's Italian heritage.
The country that tut-tuts at Europe's mega-holidays thinks nothing of giving its children such a lazy summer.
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Spain's 14 public holidays, mostly Catholic in origin, can fall on any day, and Spaniards are guaranteed a minimum of 22 additional vacation days.
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While Walmart had a good year in 2010 overall, they got their merchandising mix wrong for the holidays in the U.S. Going into the holidays, they all felt good.
The film opens in Shanghai on Friday and will run on limited screens in the U.S. during the holidays.
Clean your mom's house over the holidays, offer to wrap her presents.
It also confers certain aviation security functions on the CAA and widens the transport secretary's powers so that holidays sold by airlines could be included in the ATOL scheme in the future.
Both the need and desire to celebrate our matrons make Mother's Day the third-largest spending holiday of the year, behind the winter holidays and Valentine's Day.
As a result, nice, fresh, free-range geese appear in the butcher's case around the winter holidays.
Even Kiltow's memories of his childhood holidays at a mountain cabin outside Portland revolve around garbage.
"It wasn't our fault, but during the Christmas holidays it's not easy to do a transaction, " Varney told BBC Sport.
There was a slight rise in cases of flu over Christmas, however, the real number may be higher as many doctor's surgeries closed on bank holidays.
British Retail Consortium director general Stephen Robertson told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the Easter holidays were good for shops, representing the start of the season for DIY and garden centres.
An Iowa Democratic Party official said that there are no plans to hold the state's caucuses around the Christmas holidays despite the decisions by other states to move up their nominating contests into January.
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The bank's fate now depends on how it survives April 30th which, coming between holidays, is usually the year's busiest day.
Complete with an internal clock, Amanda always knows the date and time--not to mention special holidays like Mother's Day, of course.
To combine cooking instruction and holiday travel look no further than Jenni Muir's beautifully illustrated "Cooking School Holidays" (New York, Abbeville Press, 2004).
That is, unique among major nations, there is no federal law mandating pay for time not worked, though the U.S. does have 10 federal holidays.
"Candy is with us at very special moments we have candy at movies, we have candy at Easter, and we have candy at significant holidays like Valentine's Day, " Kimmerle says.
The four-day trading hiatus since the twin towers of the World Trade Center imploded on Tuesday morning has been the longest break in the U.S. since the special banking holidays ordered by Franklin Delano Roosevelt during the Great Depression.
Even though Beijing has been easing its restrictions by adding New Zealand and Australia to the roster of "approved destinations" (it now includes Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, Malaysia and the Philippines) for foreign holidays, it's still not that easy for a would-be wanderer from, for example, Wuhan to hop on a plane out of the country.
We hung with Wayne Coyne and LeVar Burton, got animated with John Hodgman, flew drones with Chris Anderson, went behind the scenes at Improv Everywhere, rode some crazy hacked bikes in Boston, played classic pinball, spoke to a disembodied robotic head, went ghost hunting, solved a few mysteries and even discovered the true meaning of the holidays (it's presents, by the way).
This is my second time here at Fisher House right around the Easter holidays, but it's not my second time, period.
My son's school broke up for the school holidays 3 weeks ago, but none of the pupils had received their results.
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