Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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While tabling in front of the Science Center earlier this year with the Harvard Democrats and the Harvard Republicans, Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) cadets offered students, faculty, and staff the opportunity to sign Holiday Cards to be sent to servicemen and women overseas. Yet even this bi-partisan and non-politically charged event saw Harvard cadets meet with irrational and often frighteningly humorous chides. The most notable came from a woman who dashed by and yelled “fascists!” at the uniformed students. It seemed comical at the time, and I simply smiled, waved...
Even a week before Valentine’s Day, Belle de Jour was only full of thongs, rather than throngs of holiday shoppers. The personalized service is designed to make even the most squeamish man comfortable while shopping for lingerie. The moment shoppers pass through the door they are serenaded by elegant classical music playing softly behind the racks of tantalizing ribbon and lace. The friendly staff members are eager to help and immediately ask for the pertinent information on cup size, color preference and—“delicately”—the weight...
...Queen Elizabeth celebrates 50 years on the job with a four-day holiday (1-4) of pomp and knees...
...best accommodate these "multichannel shoppers" is one of the more pressing questions for retailers as they sift through their receipts and data on consumer behavior for the crucial holiday shopping season and make plans for the future. In 2001, amid war and recession, discounters with a strong Web operation fared well as bargain-hungry and increasingly Web-savvy shoppers chose to click site to site rather than trudge store to store to compare prices. But the retailers who did best--and will do so in the year ahead--are the ones who make their online and in-store and catalog...
Best Buy also heavily promoted online buying with in-store pickup, and the effort paid off, says marketing boss Judge. More people took advantage of the option in the final week before Christmas, Judge notes, "which allowed us to keep selling as other online orders started to drop off." Holiday traffic to BestBuy.com jumped 30% from the previous year (to more than 1 million visitors a day), and total online sales more than doubled, Judge says. In 2000 about 20% of in-store buyers visited the site first, he says. In 2001 that proportion doubled...