In 2013, 500 million vacation days were left unused in the U.S., and Americans spent an average of 23 hours a week connecting through digital social mediums.
A nondescript host read the evening news without a teleprompter, and people on the left took vacations in Yugoslavia to avoid spending money in capitalist countries.
"What we're seeing is the power of what we Italians call 'General August': he overcomes all political turmoil, because everyone wants to go on vacation," said Mr. Gentiloni, the center-left legislator.
Because they are all on vacation, just like their brethren on the left.
Timberland employees spent their own vacation time organising a summer camp for 700 "left behind children".
In an update to an earlier analysis, the left-leaning Center for Economic and Policy Research looked at the vacation policies in 16 European countries, along with Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand and the U.S.
Reporting on Mr. Obama's August vacation island of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, a center of left-wing chic, The Boston Globe said "Obama fever" on the island had become a memory, replaced by disaffection over partisan deadlock and the stalled economy.
Their biographies are popular because they dramatize the agonizing preoccupations of modern man and also because they present an appealing circle of Left Bank cafés and late-night boîtes and long vacations.
Unlike the general oncology clinic, the breast clinic walls were painted an off white and left unadorned except for a white board reporting provider vacations.
Another survey by CareerBuilder indicated that 33percentt of workers said they won't be taking a vacation this year, down slightly from 35percentt last year, and nearly one in five people left unused vacation days on the table in 2016.
