Word: holidaying
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...Chancellor is a fan of America. He likes its dynamism. For many years it has been his holiday destination of choice. He enthusiastically offers a lengthy and erudite lecture on the common values of liberty and opportunity that bind it to Britain. But asked about a recent private meeting with President Bush, his responses are determinedly evasive. When finally he cooks up an opinion, it's served lukewarm. "I believe the shared interest that is founded on shared values is a very potent foundation for all relationships in the future," he says...
...north - some of the oldest Christian churches in the world - are hewn straight out of rock, with wild Biblical murals that make a Pink Floyd album cover look staid. Yet, for most people around the world, Ethiopia is still associated primarily with famine and despair. And who wants to holiday in other people's misery? My guide in Bahir Dar was insistent: "Please tell your friends that this is a special, wonderful country." Certainly, traveling here feels like a step back in time - much more than just the seven years separating the Ethiopian calendar from the Western...
...countries burned by World War II, its final days of May 8 and 9 are marked as a moment of time of remembrance and reconciliation, as proclaimed by the U.N. General Assembly in November 2004. For Russia, May 9 remains the Victory Day - this country's only meaningful national holiday, its most sacred and bitter anniversary and the one most cynically abused by the authorities in pursuit of their own aims...
...less expensive than their German counterparts. And it's not just engineers who are caught in the global squeeze. In 2004 Siemens extracted an agreement from its workforce at two mobile-phone-handset plants in Bocholt and Kamp-Lintfort to work longer hours and accept a cut in holiday pay. Frustrated union leaders say they were blackmailed into eating what amounted to a 20% wage cut. "We had to accept these terms because there was the constant threat that these jobs would go to Hungary if we didn't," says Wolfgang Mueller, who was IG Metall union's representative...
...change of heart by the extremists. In fact, renegades from Hamas, by far the largest and most organized Palestinian group, appear intent on restarting suicide missions, motivated partly by the refusal of the international community and Israel to deal with elected Hamas officials. On the eve of the Jewish holiday Passover, April 2, a rebel Hamas cell drove a truck loaded with 220 lbs. of explosives into the center of Tel Aviv. The bomb failed--probably because the driver lost his nerve, according to a military source--but it could have been a mega terrorist attack, killing hundreds of Israelis...