Word: holidaying
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...weird weather hit at a particularly bad time. Every year, in what is often called the world's largest annual migration, an estimated 180 million mainlanders go on holiday or travel home to be with their families to celebrate the Spring Festival, also known as Chinese New Year. Millions of these travelers are migrant workers - the real dynamo driving China's economic boom - who leave behind their jobs in factories and construction sites across the country for one of the few vacations many are allowed to take. But this year is different. Bad weather is making travel impossible; millions have...
...last year. But the situation may have been made worse because factories were forced to close and shipments disrupted just as the country's industrial base typically cranks up production to make up for the one- or two-week breaks many manufacturers take for the New Year holiday...
...After a year-and-a-half as interim dean of the Faculty and a semester as acting dean of the College, David R. Pilbeam took a trip of his own this winter break—to the Caribbean, for a much-needed personal holiday. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
America has never recovered the level of foreign tourism it had before 9/11. A recent Sunday Times of London article complained about the long lines at immigration and "thin-lipped questioning from aggressive border guards." The article called on Brits to consider "other more welcoming holiday options. Such as Iran or North Korea...
...Lunar New Year or Spring Festival, which begins Feb. 7, is China's most important holiday. Each year the nation's roads and rail lines are swamped by the world's largest annual human migration. Factories and mines close down for as long as two weeks, providing the year's only chance to return home for many of the 200 million migrant workers who drive the country's booming economy...