The president was busy vacationing and had neither the time nor the inclination to meet with Mr. Cleland, a former U.S. senator who was himself the target of vicious, unconscionable attacks by the G.O.P. slime machine when he ran for re-election in Georgia in 2002.
They are the "creative middle class," says Gregory Shvedov, editor-in-chief of a news portal reporting independently from the conflict-ridden Caucasus; the same folks who would join any anti-regime demonstrations unless they're busy vacationing abroad ("fresh air," I've heard them call it).
This working-class resort on the Irish Sea is the busiest vacation spot in Britain, but delegates to the Labor Party annual conference here were in no holiday mood today as they greeted their leader, Prime Minister Tony Blair.
This year could prove even busier; vacation bookings are already ahead of last year's at many resorts, and a heavy October snowstorm in Colorado gave the season an early start.
A press officer told me that she had seen the ticket lines starting as early as 6 a.m. during the busy summer vacation months.
With his cast depleted of some of its most talented and most loved performers of recent vintage, Lorne Michaels had an exceptionally busy summer vacation from "Saturday Night Live," the show he created and still produces.
All that health history, plus a round-trip flight to Poland for $368 from Paris, where I had sublet an apartment for July, made Cieplice seem a good place to shed some of the stress of my New York life and prepare for a busy Paris vacation.
The timing is particularly bad for the travel industry, coming ahead of the busy school vacation season in July and August, prompting declines in the sector's stocks.
The incoming customers join the virtual pool of customers called orbit if they find the server being busy, on vacation or in broken down state otherwise the service of the customer at the head of the batch is started by the server.
