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...this Christmas according to Deloitte's annual holiday survey, with 11% reporting that they're still paying off holiday debt from last year. Shoppers indicated they would purchase a lot fewer gifts this year - 21.5 presents on average compared with 23.1 last year. Almost seven in 10 said they intend to change their shopping behavior because of the economy; 81% say they plan to buy more sale items. "Over the last few holiday seasons consumers would buy for themselves too as they shopped, but there will be a pullback on this," says Janiak from Deloitte. The good news: those...
...What do you intend to convey with your two new films, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers and The Princess of Nebraska? Dawn King, Changsha, China They're two sides of the same picture. They're about two different generations of women from China, who are both in America now but have very different pasts and very different futures. There's one that's trying to forget her past and find a new identity and the other one doesn't really have a past and is trying to give herself an identity...
...reiterated to the Patrick administration, and intend to tell the Legislative leaders, that cuts of this magnitude will require a draconian response,” Keefe wrote. “Exactly what measures we will take in the face of this upsetting development are still being considered but we cannot wait long before we must...
...ballot question from the 2000 elections that sought to ban dog racing in the state. That initiative failed by a 51 to 49 percent margin. A poll of likely voters conducted last week by Rasmussen Reports, a public opinion polling firm, indicated that 50 percent of Massachusetts voters intend to vote yes on the question, while 37 percent are opposed. If the question passes, the ban on dog racing would go into effect in 2010. Greyhound racing has been a legalized industry in Massachusetts for over 70 years, but its popularity has declined substantially in recent decades. Only two tracks...
...Bodyline series of 1932-33, Bradman, suspecting he was to be the target of short-pitched bowling from England's fast men, beseeched the rookie Fingleton to shelter him when the pair were batting together. "These blighters are after me," Bradman is alleged to have said. "They intend to bowl at my head. Will you take [Gubby] Allen for me?" Bradman always denied saying any such thing, but Fingleton would cite other instances that, to him, showed Bradman could go weak-kneed in the face of express pace...