• Somewhere in the summer house, a loud buzzer goes off.

    NEWYORKER: Brother on Sunday

  • The measure passed the Senate in the summer and the House this week.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • Mr Koizumi, the prime minister, desperately wants to push this reform through the upper house this summer, after winning in the lower house by only five votes earlier this month.

    ECONOMIST: The hidden beauty in a heated battle

  • Negotiations over the next US budget are expected to run into the summer, but the White House says the document released on Wednesday is not an opening offer.

    BBC: Barack Obama unveils $3.77tn budget plan

  • And then the rented house that summer had one, netless, in the back yard.

    NEWYORKER: M&M World

  • In the summer, the house was closed up and the vent with the wind turbine was opened.

    FORBES: China Braces for Escalating Power Shortages

  • Last summer the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee said British troops were trying to do too much and had experienced "mission creep".

    BBC: Cameron wants troops home from Afghanistan by 2015

  • Bush's radio address is part of what the White House calls its summer strategy, having the president focus on what aides call "compassionate" issues, such as education, a plan to allow religious groups to obtain federal tax dollars to provide social services and the president's ideas for a patients' bill of rights.

    CNN: Bush urges action on education; Democrats defend health care bill

  • With permission, Mr Speaker, I should like to make a statement about the Government's proposal to invite the House to agree further democratic reform including legislation - before the House rises for the summer - on the conduct of MPs.

    BBC: In full: Constitution proposals

  • As the automobile and airplane sapped Rhode Island of its summer prominence, the Ocean House saw its fortunes slowly fade.

    FORBES: All Access

  • The most significant feature of Nevins's garden at Middlefield is the hornbeam room, entered as one moves up a flight of stone-and-grass steps toward a bench set on axis with what is the beating heart of any country house in summer, the well-used and much-loved screened porch.

    WSJ: Modern Pastoral

  • Worries over rising inequality were cleverly exploited by the opposition in the upper-house elections this summer, which led to the downfall of the prime minister, Shinzo Abe.

    ECONOMIST: Business in Japan

  • And also now that Congress has left, and given the drought this summer, how anxious is the White House to get a farm bill?

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • Several neighbors, the Paulsens not among them, brought their boys for visits to the lakeside house that summer.

    NEWYORKER: Good Neighbors

  • The ruling Liberal Democratic Party lost ground in the elections for the upper house this summer, partly by forcing through benefit cuts and higher premiums on pensions.

    ECONOMIST: Japan

  • This happened last summer when the House of Representatives passed legislation that bans all applications of human cloning -- both research and reproductive -- with stiff penalties for violators.

    CNN: graphic

  • Maryland was the first to vote on the issue following an announcement from the White House this summer that it would revise deportation enforcement to allow many young illegal immigrants to legally live and work in the United States.

    WSJ: Washington and Colorado the First States to Legalize Marijuana for General Use

  • But today the White House announced Summer Jobs Plus, which is a new call to action for businesses, nonprofits and government to work together to provide pathways to employment for low-income and disconnected youth in the summer of 2012.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • The Government will come forward with published proposals for the final stages of House of Lords reform before the summer break - including the next steps we can take to resolve the position of the remaining hereditary peers and other outstanding issues.

    BBC: In full: Constitution proposals

  • The White House insists that the information it received this past summer was general and lacked specifics.

    CNN: Families of 9/11 dead upset that clues may have been missed

  • Abe is on a mission to reinvigorate the Japanese economy, win control of the upper house of the Diet (National Assembly) in summer elections and push through constitutional revision to remove constraints on Japan's military.

    CNN: 'Abe II' on mission to redeem Japan and himself

  • Prince William and Kate Middleton are engaged to be married in London in the spring or summer of next year, Clarence House has announced, ending months of speculation about when the young couple would finally tie the knot.

    FORBES: Prince William (Finally) To Wed Kate

  • The one week vacation my hard working father took each summer was merely an opportunity to paint the house.

    FORBES: What Your Kids Need to Know About Leadership

  • The White House ordered an evaluation of the drone program during the summer of 2011.

    CNN: CIA drone war in Pakistan in sharp decline

  • He saw none, and no window lights in the nearest house, barely visible through the woods whose leaves in summer hid it entirely.

    NEWYORKER: Outage

  • As if aware of constant threat, she always slept with her gun under her pillow, even at her family home in Yorkshire, where she preferred to spend her nights in a summer-house in the garden rather than in her own comfortable bedroom amongst her beloved family.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'Gertrude Bell'

  • The engineer and tinkerer first went about designing an accurate, miniature 3D representation of his summer house in a CAD program, with the help of his wife.

    ENGADGET: Engineer builds gingerbread house using CAD and lasers, aging droids approve

  • The Arizona senator's campaign -- his second run for the White House -- was largely written off last summer amid outspoken opposition from the party's conservative base, a major staff shakeup and disappointing fundraising.

    CNN: McCain wins GOP nomination; Huckabee bows out

  • During testimony before the House Financial Services Committee last summer, Bernanke argued that IOR was simultaneously insignificant and essential.

    FORBES: Bernanke's Blind QE Worship Amounts To Faith-Based Economics

  • She is demanding that Lord Green makes that statement to the House of Lords before the summer break, next week.

    BBC: Summer recess approaches

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