Word: holidayers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drizzle did not deter the frantic last-minute preparations for independence day. Giant yellow earthmovers groaned through the mud of the Transkei's capital, completing $12 million worth of new paved highways and carving out access roads to the newly completed $14 million airport and a $2.4 million Holiday Inn. The immediate purpose of all the construction is to prepare for distinguished visitors. The only head of state who has so far accepted an invitation to next week's ceremonies, however, is South Africa's President Nicolaas Diederichs, who has to be present anyway to hand over...
...shower will get a tingle out of Amazing Grace-America in Song, a 90-minute special that many PBS stations will telecast on Wednesday night, Oct. 27. Mixing sea chanteys, Victorian parlor songs and cowboy laments, swinging from gospel to Cole Porter to Charles Ives to Billie Holiday, Producer-Director Allan Miller has created a musical mosaic that reflects the variety and vitality of American song...
...this context, the proposals put forward by the United Automobile Workers in their just-concluded contract negotiations with the Ford Motor Company are an encouraging sign. Under the tentative agreement with Ford, auto workers will receive 13 paid days off per year, in addition to the 33 holiday and vacation days they already receive off. This section of the contract--Ford's opposition to it prompted the 22-day strike against the company on September 14--is a conscious first step for the union in its future plans for the auto industry. The increase in paid days off, union officials...
...that I and many fellow Jews are obliged to miss important early classes for Yom Kippur. It further rankles that classes are scheduled on Yom Kippur, a day that is sacred to a significant percentage of the Harvard community, but not scheduled on Columbus Day, which is a meaningless holiday to nearly everyone...
...policy has the effect of encouraging people to go about "business as usual" even though it is a holiday, with the rationale that the obligation to attend classes is a serious one. Thus, the policy goes against the grain of religious commitment...