Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...that, the Federal Reserve has been boosting rates for two years, making all borrowed money more expensive. That troubles Jodi Legge, 41, of Hudson, Wis., who expects that her home-equity debt is going to cost more every month. So she and her husband Ed are sticking to the holiday budget they agreed on. Still, "we haven't cut back," Jodi says, although she's redirecting money to more practical places...
...your holiday shopping this year, are you spending ... ... more money than last year? 15% ... less money than last year? 38% ... same amount as last year...
...This holiday season, are you spending more money on ... ... practical items? 73% ... luxury items? 16% Don't know...
...eight years since Carol Moore's daughter Michelle was brutally raped and murdered in Norfolk, Va., the holidays have always seemed to shine a spotlight on that empty chair at the table. This Thanksgiving was one of the worst. Just two weeks before the feast, three Navy sailors who had confessed to killing her daughter and are serving life sentences filed a petition maintaining their innocence and requesting a full pardon. Wounds Moore had hoped were slowly closing were ripped open again. She went through the motions of the holiday like a zombie, forgetting things, unable to focus, crying...
...concert featured Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, and the holiday season-appropriate themes of peace and joy dominated the program. Though two of the first three pieces could have stood by themselves, the audience waited with bated breath in anticipation of Beethoven’s masterpiece, and consequently the opening three pieces seemed like an overture...