Word: malled
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Unemployment numbers are rising, planes are falling and the current pop psychology says folks will be thinking more about spending time with friends and family than throwing a lot of money at them. But there's always the chance that the American consumer may be feeling a little more mall-worthy this holiday than everyone thinks...
...delay the recovery much, but it'll make the interim a lot more painful - and still more bad news for manufacturers and anyone else whose job depends on the Great American commercialism normally associated with the season. But it's good news to anybody who can get to the mall before all the decent stuff is gone...
...brother just spent October propping up national retail sales by buying brand-new zero-interest-rate automobiles. To grandmother?s house we go. But drivers take shorter trips than flyers and riders, spend less on hotels and spend more time at rest stops and less at the mall. They go to less exotic places - Club Med is closing 15 locations due to a 20-percent bookings decline since the 11th. And how'd you like to be in the rental-car business right...
...both, it was a lot harder for Jim. "My wife always had her daughter Melissa to fall back on, and I just felt like I had to go at this alone," says Jim, 43, an auditor for the State of Oklahoma. "I'd have trouble going to a mall, for instance, because there are just too many kids there, and Susan couldn't understand that." Today, however, the couple shower three cats and one dog with affection. Says Jim: "Finding something you can focus on as a couple, other than your infertility, can help make all the difference...
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