The resort, Beidaihe, is about 180 miles from Beijing and is popular with sightseers and state workers on vacation.
Since their social worker was on vacation, Ms. Marris said, they had to wait for her return to find out if the children were part of the county program, which would make them more easily adoptable, and if they, a couple in their 40's with a moderate income, had a shot at adopting them.
Eight years after landing a four-month contract with the municipality of Athens to water flowers and trim trees while other workers were on vacation, she was told recently that her services would be eliminated after her latest contract ends.
Medical personnel, meanwhile, say that hospitals remain unprepared for another heat wave; last year's was made worse by the fact that so many French emergency workers were on vacation in August.
The Southgate, which is made up of four buildings on 52nd Street between First Avenue and the East River and an additional one on 51st Street, recently experienced a groundswell in the number of female employees, as six women were hired to fill in as porters or door staff members for the summer while regular workers are on vacation.
One day, when my co-worker was on vacation, I crept over and read the following: And though I know now that Heaven may be only the mind's fear of the wonders it imagines, the way our best thoughts surprise us and seem not to be our own, I like to believe we turn into light around those we love, or would have loved, had we known them, and warn them through the blood by ringing in their ears.
At this point Bob, the manager of a department of about 35 workers, went on vacation for a week.
Some of the questionnaires were not distributed to physicians (in a few cases hospital administrators admitted they were unable to distribute all of the questionnaires because some workers were on vacation).
If there is no known or measurable relationship between the timing of the tests and the timing of vacations, and if the other relevant features of the workers who are on vacation at the time of the tests are similar to that of other workers, then these missing data can be considered MCAR.
As a result, American workers spend fewer weeks on vacation than workers elsewhere.
