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...Well, okay, maybe not "easy," but with just 12 months as a scorecard, there's a lot in the world that can put the wind at a company's back. In 2007, shipping companies had a fantastic year, thanks to a boom in commodities. In 2008, deep-discount retailers saw a major rally, in no small part because consumers were spooked by the financial crisis. (See the top stocks of the decade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Top Stocks of the Decade | 12/22/2009 | See Source »

...more likely to be strategically slapped on certain items rather than spread store-wide as they were last year. "We're definitely expecting to see a lot of promotions in the days before Christmas, but we are not likely to see the blanket discounts and markdowns that we saw a year ago," says Ellen Davis, a spokesperson for the National Retail Federation. "You probably won't walk into a store and see signs for 60%, 70% or 80% off everything."See pictures of retailers which have gone out of business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Christmas Shopping: For Retailers, Down to Two Crucial Days | 12/22/2009 | See Source »

...decades, American conservatives have been warning of threats posed to the institution by a broad spectrum of foes. Henry Ford blamed Jews for the efforts to remove religious displays from public schools; in the McCarthy era, the John Birch Society saw the holiday as the target of a vast communist conspiracy. Since the 1990s, a right-wing website has held an annual competition for the most egregious example of secularization. (Villains include the Department of Housing and Urban Development, which christened its year-end party "A Celebration of Holiday Traditions.") But it was really during this decade that the Yule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brief History: The War on Christmas | 12/21/2009 | See Source »

...fans, Harris-Moore is known as "the Barefoot Burglar" because he once kicked off his shoes to flee deputies chasing him in the woods. One of his admirers - a young, tattooed waitress at the Viking Restaurant in nearby Stanwood, on the mainland - says that one night last month, she saw a tall young man sprinting down the street. "He was barefoot, and he was laughing. I wanted it so much to be Colton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's Most Wanted Teenage Bandit | 12/21/2009 | See Source »

...final plenary saw an outpouring of frustration over two weeks of negotiations, long hours and a generally poorly planned event. Di-Aping said the Copenhagen Accord would destroy Africa, and compared the agreement to the Holocaust - perhaps not the smartest metaphor that could have been used by a representative of a government accused by some of conducting genocide. That statement set off a free-for-all, but eventually, even the parties most critical of the deal begged for consensus. "Papua New Guinea supports this document, even though it is flawed," said delegate Kevin Conrad. (See the top 10 green ideas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Climate Compromise Leaves a Bitter Aftertaste | 12/20/2009 | See Source »

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