Word: recess
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...planning board said they will review the proposal again after Harvard and neighbors have finalized the language, hopely sending a recommendation to the city council before it goes on recess in June...
Rafferty initially requested that if the commission decided on suspension, it defer enforcement until area colleges recess in June. He withdrew this request after conferring with McCarthy during the hearing...
This is the Disney version of South Park: cheeky, sketchily drawn kids in conflict with clueless, tyrannical adults. Given its auspices, Recess is infinitely less transgressive than the competition; its dialogue will not bring a blush to a parentally guiding grownup's cheek. Here, summer vacation is under high-tech threat from a rogue teacher--vocally characterized by a comically nasty James Woods--who is easily thwarted by the busy brats. It's a weightless, but not entirely feckless, way to pass a rainy afternoon when your kids are whiney and restless...
After a winter recess spent recovering from their crawl through what Felix Frankfurter called the "political thicket," the nine Justices of the United States Supreme Court are finally back to the kind of work whose national importance is a bit more theoretical...
...they can use to help pay tuition at private and parochial schools. Next week Bush will introduce legislation on another signature issue, a proposal to funnel federal funds to community- and faith-based charities that do everything from feed the homeless to treat the addicted. Then, just as they recess for most of February, members of Congress will receive a copy of Bush's 10-year, $1.6 trillion tax-cut proposal to tuck into their travel bags...