Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...crisis couldn't come at a worse time: many charities, such as City Harvest, which delivers leftover food from restaurants to the needy in New York City, collect the bulk of their donations during the holiday season, and with unemployment on the rise and 401(k) plans tanking, it's likely to be a blue Christmas. Over the past two years, City Harvest received $100,000 from Lehman alone - one of the charity's Top 5 donors. "We are obviously very concerned," says Jilly Stephens, City Harvest's executive director. "We have the bulk of our fund-raising ahead...
...Roman Holiday. Italy has established a uniform hotel rating system countrywide, despite resistance from some hoteliers, who were concerned that the bill was passed without their input. The new ratings - from one to five stars - will standardize hotel grades depending on room size, accessibility of private bathrooms, satellite TV, air-conditioning, Internet access, safes, the quality of cleaning services and the hours reception areas are manned...
...prices still declining in many areas, both spending and lending are being squeezed all across the country. Consumer lending contracted last month--that's practically un-American. Car dealers may fold by the hundreds, as customers can't get credit to buy and manufacturers won't finance dealer inventories. Holiday-shopping forecasts are getting bleaker. Declining home values mean more homeowners could default, further driving down property values. All that crimps tax revenues, and states such as Pennsylvania and New York are now trying to plug gaping holes in their budgets, while California is looking for $7 billion from Washington...
Luckily, there is an easy way to improve upon the status quo: Congress should vote to make Election Day—that is, the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November—a federal holiday. This is no new idea: Election Day is already a holiday in states such as Delaware, Hawaii, Kentucky, Maryland, Montana, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, and West Virginia. The idea has even been contemplated on the federal level, too. In 2005, Michigan Representative John Conyers proposed the establishment of “Democracy Day,” a holiday that would fuse Election...
Perhaps if the federal government deemed Election Day important enough to make a holiday, voting would seem more important than yet another banal errand...