Last week, a quiet work period thanks to the July 4th holiday, several firms in Silicon Valley, including Sun Microsystems, simply shut down parts of their operations and made workers take the whole week as vacation.
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Obviously the work period that Congress is involved in now is in dealing with some tremendously important issues, including the credit card stuff, financial regulation -- all of these issues, the President wants to work with Congress to see progress on these issues.
Network Rail hopes to cram in 20 weekends' worth of work in the period.
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Some 40 percent of those questioned said they had been without work for a period of time in the past 3 years.
For everyone else they had to invent plausible reasons to explain their absence from home and work for a period of two months.
It said Ms Eweida did not attend work for a period of time in 2006 while an internal appeal was held into her refusal to remove her cross but she remained a British Airways employee.
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Which is unfortunate, because that intense period at work now tends to be interrupted by procrastinated childbearing.
They need to put this money to work before the investment period for their funds is supposed to end.
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The company was forced to close after it failed to find enough work for the winter period, PKF added.
You may ask yourself why that would matter, since if it tracks its index properly each day, it should work over any extended period of time.
And then obviously this is a very important critical set of issues that we will turn to with focus and seriousness and work through over the period ahead.
"Our aim must be that over a five to 10-year period we work towards every single secondary school within easy reach of a university being covered by such a programme, " she said.
Under the programme, contractors get a small fee when someone joins the scheme but they are only liable for larger fees once they have been in work for an extended period of time - of up to two years.
The number of people taking the whole of the Christmas and New Year period off work in the UK was expected to be higher than last year's figure of about five million, said the Centre for Economics and Business Research.
He's back at work again, after a period of on-and-off retirement and working part-time.
For example, the standard payment period for a work bought at auction runs 30 days.
In the past, this period of his work has often been dismissed as mere entertainment.
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One reason is more teenagers in work: over the same period, teenage employment grew by nearly two-thirds.
There is much speculation that Dr Mahathir may work out a lengthy handover period with Mr Badawi, his likely successor.
The report said the arrival of new headteacher Russ Wallace in February marked the start of a period of hard work to address priorities.
Before I get started, I just want to acknowledge some of the extraordinary people who did some extraordinary work in a very short period of time.
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Peter Blake, the council's head of integrated transport, said that the upgrade will cause some "short-term disruption" as each entrance will be closed separately for a period of the work.
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The one thing we do know, however, is that once a reputation is marred, it takes a lot of hard work, and a long period of time, to regain its luster.
Anticipating a period of hard work recently, he read "Wired" magazine cover to cover, then went to see "Django Unchained, " says Mr. Myhren, president and chief creative officer of Grey New York.
Sure it is conceivable that both parties could hurriedly work out something in this period, but would it be a truly viable compromise or a solution that we would come to regret over time?
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I'd made quite a lot of site specific work and my sister actually wasn't well during a lot of the period when I was making that work, but she came to see most of it and really liked it.
Bush says he hopes the department can begin full work over a phased-in period once Congress approves it.
Sharpe ratios work best when figured over a period of at least three years, advisers say.
The majority of staff in the Wiltshire emergency operations centre (EOC) work across a 24-hour period dispatching ambulances around the area.
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