Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Once reserved for a necessary but ultimately boring civic duty, Election Day could become one of the nation?s most exhilarating holidays. If so, trace it back to today, when former Presidents Carter and Ford delivered a long-awaited report on Election 2000 and how to make future elections run more smoothly. Their recommendations range from the mundane (re-evaluate the efficacy of punch-card ballots) to the nebulous (enforce civil rights statutes) to the vaguely diverting (make Election Day a federal holiday...
...hour after sunset on that Saturday, Lees and 28-year-old Peter Falconio, six months into the Australian leg of their round-the-world holiday, were cruising in their orange Volkswagen campervan?Falconio at the wheel?when a white four-wheel-drive pickup drew alongside. The driver gestured that he could see sparks coming from the exhaust of the campervan and, after some discussion about whether to heed him, the couple pulled over. Falconio inspected the van with the stranger, then came to the front and asked Lees to rev the engine. When he walked behind the van again, Lees...
...giddy Hollywood-induced hope that would have been better suited for a pimple-popping pre-teen than yours truly, I began my info center job and eagerly awaited the special tour filled with 22-to-26-year-old male Oxford students who had jaunted over to the States on holiday and were in desperate need of a guided stroll around fair Harvard. Instead I got, and still get, the belligerent mother of two who won’t accept the fact that there is no super secret formula for admission to the College, or the frantic Hungarian businessman who just...
...case of DVT, many airlines will be forced to do just that in the next few weeks, as the summer holiday season takes off. The death last October of Briton Emma Christofferson, 28, after flying home on Qantas from Australia triggered an avalanche of claims. Melbourne law firm Slater & Gordon has collected 2,300, of which 120 involved deaths. It hopes to file test cases later this month in what all sides see as a legal watershed for the aviation industry. "The cases involve just about every airline flying to and from Australia," says Paul Henderson, heading Slater & Gordon...
...decongestant tablets to counter a chest infection she developed days before. Fearful of jeopardizing her cheap, advance-purchase fare, she didn't consult her doctor?or tell the airline. "I'm a danger to other passengers," she admits. "But if I cancel my flight, that's it. My holiday's gone." For Wilson, as for so many others, air travel has become less of an adventure and more of a calculated risk...