"Hospitals are sensibly planning to give priority to winter pressures over the long holiday period, " he said.
However, trading could die down quickly as U.S. and Canadian traders may hit the exit doors early today, ahead of the long holiday weekend.
Governments and corporations have long considered the eve of a long holiday weekend the best time for dumping embarrassing or unpleasant news.
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Shares in Hong Kong will resume trading today after the long Easter holiday.
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Lawmakers waited until the end of business on Friday for the long public holiday weekend in a "well-orchestrated" plan, according to Hart.
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The many and varied rites associated with the fortnight-long holiday may sound innocent enough: gift-giving, trick-or-treating, fireworks, open-air picnics, the eating of special foods and the display of symbols of abundance such as goldfish, coloured eggs, potted plants and shiny coins.
It seems at the end of a long year, around the holiday season, a pretty awful thing to play politics about.
President Bush ordered steps on Thursday to reduce the long delays at airports ahead of the holiday season, hoping to ease air traffic congestion that has increasingly angered travelers and left many passengers stranded at airports.
Black Friday has long been the busiest holiday shopping day of the year.
He said consumers should just think of the situation as a long holiday weekend -- they should have just a little extra food on hand.
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But Friday's moves were slim, as a dearth of news and low trading volume gave investors little incentive to take a stand ahead of the long New Year-holiday weekend.
Companies have altered ordering practices but are still closely watching China as workers return this week from the long Lunar New Year holiday, worried that fewer workers are going back to their factory jobs.
Some have said this is the best retail holiday season in a long time, even before the economy went south in recent years.
The idea is that if Memorial Day was not simply a long weekend holiday for going to the beach and grilling, more Americans might actually realize that it has a deeper and much more somber meaning.
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In recent years, the Ferrari ace has made a habit of taking a long break over the winter in his holiday home in Norway.
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Keep your ticker ticking It's easy to knock back several glasses of wine when you're sitting around the holiday table for long stretches of time, especially if you tell yourself that wine is good for your heart.
The warm weather and a long bank holiday has seen people flock to coastal resorts.
Ms Bowen thinks that people will continue to holiday by the seaside long after the summer is over.
Another spending spree is going on now, during the new week-long May Day holiday (May 1 to May 7), but it is a different phenomenon altogether.
Tickets are often hard to come by, and, make no mistake, this is not an event driven exclusively by tourist dollars (or the Pacific Franc) but one that is committed to preserving local culture and identity, and the dancing continues with a proud energy well into the small hours, long after weary holiday makers have retreated to bed.
If we want more people to be able to afford houses in the long-run, a two-year tax holiday for home-buyers isn't the way to do it.
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Eating healthy on the road has long been a struggle for holiday travelers.
There's always a buzz in Cleveland for the first home game, a date the locals have long treated like a national holiday.
The company is one of many from the U.S. and other countries that are closely watching China as factory workers slowly return this week from the country's long Lunar New Year holiday.
This year, for example, it stretched the holiday out with a week-long roster of parades and attractions.
In recent years, the berries have come a long way, from a holiday side dish to a year-round big business.
It showed staff living quarters in cramped holiday accommodation a long way from the Amazon warehouse, which could only be reached by an unreliable bus service.
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In Europe, for example, rail operators offer a wide range of fares and discounts for those who book in advance, travel at odd times or bundle the fare with a packaged holiday much as airlines have long done.
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