The hiatus may be understandable but not for patients desperate for state-of-the art medicines, whatever their cost.
Sisters Emily Robison and Martie Maguire and lead singer Natalie Maines all had babies during the hiatus.
Unwelcome though it is, the hiatus is no more likely to prove permanent this time than it did last year.
But just months after announcing the hiatus, Dion noticed a lump on her husband's neck while they were flying to Texas.
The hiatus caused by starting a family at this stage could then prove a setback professionally, diminishing the return on investment.
But Mr Netanyahu's office has denied the hiatus amounted to an official freeze and continued to insist on "natural growth" construction in settlements.
More likely, reopening the line would prove not to be an option due to the loss of suppliers and skilled workers during the hiatus.
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The iPhone 4 debuted 15 months ago and the hiatus between that launch and today marks one of the longest periods without a new model in the history of the device.
The hiatus in air travel could be a rehearsal for a post-jet age if the peak oil theory is correct and we are facing a future with insufficient fuel to put into planes.
Following the retirement of the American space shuttle in July, the Soyuz rocket is the only means of getting astronauts and cosmonauts to the ISS. August's failure saw manned flights stand down even longer than the six weeks for unmanned Soyuz rockets, and the hiatus put a severe strain on the operation of the space station.
Proof of the gravity of the hiatus is that EDF has recently cut its dedicated nuclear workforce by 20% or 150 people, and stopped recruiting, because - in the words of an EDF source - the company felt it could no longer "burn money" (no jokes please about how that might be cheaper than more conventional fuel).
It is more productive in the long term, therefore, that it uses the hiatus provided by Annan to peacefully mobilize the masses inside Damascus and Aleppo, publish a manifesto that gains purchase from minority Syrians that sectarian violence will not rise in a post-Assad Syria, and bring on board the major religious, tribal and business figures inside country.
Netanyahu said no agreement had been reached on the length of time for the building hiatus, the source said.
Netanyahu said no agreement had been reached on the length of time for the building hiatus, the source told CNN.
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But the parliamentary hiatus might allow the Liberals to bring forward their leadership vote and replace the lacklustre Mr Dion.
Republicans had not had a governor here in 32 years, the longest hiatus (unintelligible) at the time.
The current hiatus on new listings has affected scores of private companies in line to list.
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Mr Prodi says he believes the commission, as an institution, will not be weakened by the current hiatus.
He was kidnapped and then killed in Pakistan in 2002, and most of the story takes place in the dreadful hiatus between those two events.
Eriksson pointed out that every country that has won a major tournament since 1966, the last time England won anything of note, has had the benefit of a winter break and Germany, the best European performers, traditionally has the longest hiatus among major nations.
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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.
First the chancellor and his team face Treasury Questions - and then the Scotland Bill returns to the Commons after a long hiatus caused by the Libyan intervention and the purdah period required because of the Scottish elections.
Sometimes I swam out to the middle and stayed there, treading water, listening to the quiet that surrounded me, a hiatus in the air, like a held breath.
In the spring, when its celebrated opera company is on hiatus, the Metropolitan Opera House is home to the American Ballet Theatre.
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The 2010 executions were the first after a hiatus that had lasted since 2005, when it adopted an informal moratorium on the death penalty.
He added that the scheme was due to end in April 2011, and that there would therefore be a hiatus when the EU judgement causes it to end in December 2010.
In 1978 the pianist continued to perform for four more years to honor commitments, thenbegan a nine-year hiatus from the stage.
Although Madsen is happy for now staying at home with his son, other dads in the play group say they've considered what it might be like to start working again after their hiatus from the office.
It helped produce the success of the last decade: not a single follow-up al Qaeda attack in the U.S. Exclusive reliance on drones and a no-capture policy spend down the investments in intelligence that made this hiatus possible, without replenishing the interrogation-gained information needed to predict future threats.
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