La-Z-Boy, the home furniture maker, said yesterday that it might close plants and extend vacation shutdowns after its quarterly sales fell amid declining demand.
Maybe it's the post-White House extended vacation, or maybe it's the fact that she can finally open her windows.
Others are taking extended vacations.
He was well respected there and considered invaluable, though he was given endless leaves and extended vacations.
Last school year, the state closed schools early or extended vacations in almost half of its 200 districts because of budget troubles that surfaced last winter.
For a variety of reasons -- chiefly the terrorist attacks, but also the slowing economy and lower gasoline prices -- many Americans are shelving extended vacations in favor of weekend getaways by car, often planned at the last minute.
When Bob Lucas was writing that the Great Depression was people taking extended vacations — refusing to take available jobs at low wages — there was another Chicago economist, Albert Rees, who was writing in the Chicago Journal saying, No, wait a minute.
It was an ethos that Mr. Romney tried to imbue in his five sons, even as they grew up with the trappings of wealth, like prep school tuitions, extended vacations, Jet Skis -- and, in recent years, $100 million in trust funds and a paternal investment of at least $1 million in a financial company started by Tagg Romney.
Another, older classmate, who had already spent 10 successful years in another profession, was just eager to get on with his training; for him, a fourth year filled with electives and extended vacations was a waste of time and tuition money.
Those epic essays may seem to unfold outside the boundaries of time; their clock speed, to borrow a term from digital parlance, may simply not compute in lives where cell phones accompany every step of the day and extended vacations are a forgotten concept.
