Word: recession
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...though, if there's to be any hope for immigration reform this year. "We kind of need to get this back on track by the July 4th holiday," said one Senate Republican staffer. "Because that would then give the House four weeks to get it through before the August recess ... After that, there's a very short amount of time to complete work on spending bills before the beginning of the new fiscal year [October...
...cause one can rally to. For one thing, how could adults face the dull stress of a work day, the pain of lost love, or the reality of warfare if our imaginations were still as free as children’s? And not even the impending summer is recess enough for the grown-up mind, because Harvard is not the problem, it’s just one step we’ve taken towards adult seriousness—imagination was just a treasure that we packed up on the way. Sarah C. McKetta ’09, a Crimson editorial...
...enable students and faculty members to cross Harvard’s internal borders with greater ease” (Bok 2007). But then you tie the synchronization of the educational terms of Harvard’s schools with the moving of fall term exams from after winter recess to before, when the two changes are not necessarily connected—the undergraduate calendar can just as well be applied to the graduate schools in order to carry out the above-mentioned harmonization...
...Recess at a school for the children of the diplomatic corps? Nope, it's the female penitentiary outside Caracas, where Venezuela sends foreigners caught smuggling cocaine...
...Committee on Calendar Reform, one of the curricular review committees, proposed a “4-1-4” schedule to align Harvard with most other colleges: The school year would start immediately after Labor Day and final exams would be given prior to winter recess in December. Before the four months of spring semester, the Committee recommended the institution of a three-week January Term (J-Term) in which students could choose to travel, perform community service, conduct research, or even enroll in an intensive academic course. Abstractly, such an opportunity to focus intensely on one pursuit...