"It's simply illogical to bring out so many books at a moment when the French have no money left after the vacations, when they're busy readjusting to school and work.
However well deserved, Mr. Obama will have returned from that vacation when the battle is fully joined in September.
There was the family vacation when the running joke was "we wee-weed in the weeds" after one of us stepped off a hiking trail to answer nature's call.
So when you recall the summer vacation when you first learned to swim or row a boat, it feels endless.
He used the August vacation — when lawmakers were largely laying low at home — to reassert his determination to stay the course.
Judge Phillips, a widow, lives with two wire-haired fox terriers, Mick and Taffy — she refers to them as "my walking enforcers" who help prepare her for the annual vacation, when she and a group of friends enjoy European walking tours.
Around 1999, I was in Paris, staying at the Ritz on vacation, when I went down to the pool and the only two people there were Mel Brooks and his wife Anne Bancroft.
It is, obviously, a vestige from the long school vacation, when time moved differently and the obliterating effect of the heat and light held the promise of shedding old layers.
Perhaps household income takes a little hit, but the family can vacation when they want to and make more of the kids' soccer games.
Rutgers University, which has been installing sprinklers in all its old residence halls, said construction could be done only during the 10 weeks of summer vacation when the buildings were empty.
