Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...master, my then-5-year-old daughter helped decorate our residence for a Halloween open house, and she took enormous delight in the idea that what she was doing was going to scare the undergraduates. I think it really helped her get hold of her own fears about the holiday...
...stores in 21 states. Americans will spend about $6.9 billion on Halloween this year$2 billion on candy alone, an extra $1.5 billion on costumes and much of the rest on decorations and doodads. Don't get me started on outfits for pets or the move to extend the holiday into an event that runs for a whole season so that it becomes--you'll love this--"Falloween." Only Christmas gets consumers dipping into their pocketbooks with such happy abandon. Stretch Halloween over the whole of October, and it may soon race into first place in the waste-your-money...
Previewing the holiday season, analysts give Nokia the nod; Motorola's profitability lags Nokia's, and Motorola has been slow to deliver a camera phone in the U.S., a setback since sales of this item could double, to 16% of the industry total, in 2004. Writes Paul Sagawa of Bernstein Research: "The rest of the competition will eat away at its market share...
...stores in 21 states. Americans will spend about $6.9 billion on Halloween this year$2 billion on candy alone, an extra $1.5 billion on costumes and much of the rest on decorations and doodads. Don't get me started on outfits for pets or the move to extend the holiday into an event that runs for a whole season so that it becomes - you'll love this--"Falloween." Only Christmas gets consumers dipping into their pocketbooks with such happy abandon. Stretch Halloween over the whole of October, and it may soon race into first place in the waste-your-money...
...just about children acting like adults but about adults behaving like children. That doesn't mean adults have to be serious all the time. It does mean that they should recognize when it's time - and what it means - to grow up and let the kids run their own holiday. "When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child ..." wrote St. Paul to the Corinthians. "But when I became a man, I put away childish things." Paul had never seen plastic pumpkins going "Whoooooooo ..." but you can bet that...