As Americans, we all work longer days than our counterparts around the globe.
During summer the Northern Hemisphere is tilted towards the Sun so we get longer days and warmer weather.
It is longer days, sunshine, warmer temperatures and that much closer to baseball season (Yankees, if you want to know).
Economic theory would now predict that taxi drivers make longer days when it is raining because then they make more money per hour.
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To "play by the new rules of the new game" and strike quickly when necessary, Kwok says he is working harder, longer days than ever.
The yellow tulips in the back are contrasted with the rows of tulips that have yet to bloom, highlighting a long-awaited yet faithful spring that fulfills its promise of longer days.
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Former Obama White House Chief of Staff now Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has little reason to back off either the evaluations or longer days, which he campaigned on, even if the schools are temporarily closed.
Meanwhile, all manner of reform advocates continue their decades-long scramble for solutions: smaller classes, longer days, better teachers, better principals, better superintendents, improved student testing, more rigorous teacher evaluation, more imaginative use of technology.
An aggressive campaign could recruit 26, 000 new teachers in-state and from across the country in very short order from teachers who are desperate to find work, and who will not mind working longer days or being held accountable for student test scores.
But these days are no longer those days.
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Some popular American charter schools now offer longer school days and shorter summer holidays.
First, students may be given more opportunity to learn through longer school days across any given year.
The proposal includes pay cuts of up to 13%, longer work days and no limits on class sizes.
For most of us, longer summer days may mean that dinnertime, maybe the kids' bedtime, slip to a later hour.
And students from disadvantaged families need schools that expand time to learn through longer school days and years, in order for them to catch up.
Mr Gove said that some academies (state schools outside local authority control), were already running longer school days while others had changed the structure of their school terms.
All KIPP schools have longer school days and most have some kind of paycheck system for motivating students, and all are staffed largely by young, nonunion, still motivated teachers.
We went to the seashore twice a year but never any longer than five days.
In 2007, the Senate passed a bill banning secret holds that last longer than six days.
Passengers are being warned that check in could take longer after two days without flights.
In rare and extreme cases, he said, it should be used for no longer than 15 days.
Some states passed legislation forbidding a trailer to stay in any one place longer than ten days.
Further, the average wait time for the Medicaid beneficiaries was 22 days longer.
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There have been few instances of people surviving longer than 10 days after disasters like earthquakes, according to academic studies.
Isaksen would not discuss details about the investigation, but added that non-emergency investigations typically take no longer than 15 days.
The past 11 conclaves have lasted no longer than four days, the diocese of Providence, Rhode Island, wrote on its website.
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In one, volunteers who had a piece of tissue punched from their skin took nine days longer to heal when stressed.
Workers are no longer paid for days when they are on strike.
It is quite possible for people who are in a state of mania to stay up far longer than five days in a row.
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