In case you missed it, Florida is having a silly debate over recess for elementary-school kids.
(New trains being tested now have a recess of only about 6 inches, and yesterday, every door blocker who was interviewed was much wider than that).
While the official deadline for Section 215 is June 1, Congress has a recess scheduled for the last week of May -- meaning the effective deadline is more like May 22.
John R. Reigstad University City, Mo., March 15 , 2010To the Editor: If recess is defined as a temporary withdrawal or cessation from usual work or activity, it is an oxymoron to have a recess coach.
"My thing is, we had a midwinter recess," she added.
Reich had been a recess appointment after he was blocked by the then-Democratic-controlled Senate.
It was the culmination of the grim story of 33 desperate Chilean miners, who had been trapped in a recess of the muddy, slippery earth in the Atacama desert since the previous August, the middle of the Chilean winter.
In the back wall of the middle room to the left is a half cell - which has a seat recess - and a cell with a grooved door.
He has been serving in a recess appointment since the Senate declined to confirm him last year in the face of Republican concerns about the new agency.
The board's acting general counsel, Lafe E. Solomon, is also a recess appointee – Senate Republicans have blocked his confirmation.
The buttons themselves are slightly recessed, have a nice click, and feel like they could be pressed about a billion times before breaking.
