Word: holidaying
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...inhaled the incense smoke and flicked flower petals into the tropical air. My husband and I were sitting on a patch of earth on the Indonesian island of Bali as the local priest, Ida Bagus Putu Wija, communed with the resident spirits about our vague plans to build a holiday home there. Eventually, the Balinese wise man gave us the news that would literally determine the shape of our future villa. In the parallel spirit world of this devoutly Hindu island, our peaceful stretch of riverbank was actually a bustling spirit town, far bigger than the nearby human village...
...Retail sales in September dropped to $375.5 billion, a 1.2% decrease from August. With access to credit severely restricted by the banking crisis, this third consecutive month of shrinking sales is significant because it happened during the back-to-school shopping period, usually retailers' biggest month outside the December holiday season. And a three-month decline in sales like this - September's drop was the worst - hasn't occurred since the 1990-1991 recession...
...Consumer Sentiment: On Friday, the University of Michigan Survey of Consumers posts its sentiment index for early October, which measures shoppers' outlooks as they gear up for the holiday buying season, a crucial period that accounts for as much as 40% of retailers' annual sales. "Traditionally, if gas prices are up, consumer confidence is down," says Englund. "I'm not sure what will be captured by the Michigan Index, but I think it will drop because the RBC index dropped and that makes intuitive sense." According to the National Monthly RBC/CASH (Consumer Attitudes and Spending by Household) Index, consumer confidence...
...support the Republican ticket, not after the Bush Administration's mishandling of Hurricane Katrina and the economic crisis that particularly threatens an already fragile black middle class. For many blacks, there is little evidence that McCain, who still has the stigma of initially opposing a Martin Luther King Jr. holiday in his home state of Arizona two decades ago, has a desire to cultivate the kind of relationships with black Republicans that Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush displayed...
Hang On to Your Holiday Glow. It's usually wise to leave your out-of-town tryst where you found it. But there's no reason to abandon your newfound allure in some empty hotel room. The key is to maintain that I'm-on-vacation mindset. Quit worrying so much about the long term, take chances and reprioritize your goals so that "fun" is back up in your top five. And hey, if that doesn't work, you can always fake a foreign accent...