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...launch the start of the first wave of Christmas advertisements, chief among them, the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, running in New York City since 1924. The holiday spree became so important to retailers that during the Great Depression, they appealed to President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939 to move Thanksgiving up in order to stretch out the holiday shopping season. Roosevelt obliged, moving Thanksgiving one week earlier, but didn't announce the change until October. As a result, Americans had two Thanksgivings that year - Roosevelt's, derisively dubbed "Franksgiving," and the original. Because the switchover was handled so poorly...
...from future experiences and, therefore, influences virtually any decision you make about what you might like or not like: whether you should buy the red shirt or black one, whether you'll enjoy watching Top Chef over Mad Men, whether you should leave your job or whether you should move in with your boyfriend...
...lawmaker in the conservative Grand National Party (GNP), who helped the victims file the complaint. In 2005, Shin was part of a group of 13 conservative lawmakers who drafted a law that combined many earlier truth commissions into the one now. Critics charged this as a move to limit the investigations. Shin adds that the mandate should not be renewed when it expires in April...
...based in reality. And that's why we restructured ourselves. This renewal came at the right time to meet these challenges. And it's in how we meet them that we will show how we will be successful. Nevertheless [the protests] say to the government that we had better move. It's a wake up call: Deal with this! Pay serious attention! If we do not deal with these things now, people will lose confidence...
...managers, to the school principals - it was just left to the bureaucracy. That's why we had a meeting of school principals from across the country in Durban. And education is one of the most important things. If we do not pay attention to education, we will never move forward...