Each of us has had to forgo or delay vacations when our business welfare required it or when our family's care demanded same.
Hoping to win a second week, Mr. Olbermann, who has engaged in increasingly bitter mudslinging with Mr. O'Reilly, has delayed his vacation indefinitely.
"Where else in the world can you go to bars to watch every game and have people from the competing countries cheering on their team?" said British-born Scott Parr, 30, who delayed a vacation to Australia so he could watch the World Cup in Toronto.
If a terrorism insurance backstop were of such monumental importance to the country, one would think the Senate would delay its vacation a few days.
"He talked about how he and his wife had looked over the family budget and figured they could manage a 10percentt pay cut, by rethinking some of their purchases and making a few adjustments, like delaying a vacation," Ms. Ruppel Shell said.
The most common solution was to cut back on major household purchases or delay vacations.
In a July HuffPost/YouGov poll, 37percentt of Americans who work part time or full time said they'd delayed taking a vacation this year in order to save money, and 45percentt said their ability to take time off from work had been at least somewhat of a factor in their summer plans.
Only the threat of Congress being delayed in its spring vacation by air traffic controller shortages got the government back on track.
That physical, which included an examination by a hand specialist in California, was delayed because Johnson was vacationing in Europe.
Almost two out of three here admitted they had delayed or scrapped some promised vacation time.
