Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...long time before the agency stops being politicians' favorite punching bag. No wonder the challenge of spending all that money seems to hold no joy for those grinding away at FEMA's National Response Coordination Center located in a sad annex behind a southwest Washington Holiday Inn. "The size of it is daunting. The speed with which it needs to be delivered is very difficult," says Bob Spaulding, project manager for Fluor Corp., one of the companies awarded $100 million to help provide temporary housing to nearly 1 million people in the region. To help quicken the pace of rebuilding...
...It’s a game every single day in the summer,” he says. “Long road trips. Hotels from Super 8 to Holiday Inn and all the way around...
...something that decidedly was not broken. "Not very many companies are bold enough to shoot their best-selling product at the peak of its popularity," Gartner analyst Van Baker says. "That's what Apple just did." And it did that while staring right down the barrels of the holiday retail season...
...Monday; a letter-box drop in the area has urged voters to come and meet him. Key is wearing dark suit pants and a salmon-colored shirt (no tie), suggesting work and energy; the people here, in shorts and light dresses, look like they're on holiday. Several locals stop by with donations or to pick up on a previous conversation, as the smell of frying vegetable oil from a snack bar wafts by. A young mother, carrying a child, identifies as a Labour voter but she wants to be persuaded to change her vote this time. Key zeroes...
George W. Bush, famous for his vacations, did not rest on Labor Day. Instead, his holiday began with a meeting with Judge John Roberts at the White House where Bush offered to make him Chief Justice. Roberts said yes immediately and thanked Bush. It's uncertain who was happier; Roberts was fulfilling a lifelong ambition, but Bush was getting his first good news in days. It was a smart political move for a beleaguered president. Roberts seemed to be on his way to confirmation before Chief Justice William Rehnquist died at his Virginia home on Saturday night. Now, barring some...