Word: shopping
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...vote for socialism or democracy?" pipe fitter Danny McIntyre, 37, playfully asked a reporter at a nearby gas station after he voted. He said 12 of the 13 union workers in his shop were voting for McCain - despite AFL-CIO efforts to convince them otherwise. This is about taxes, he said, not race. "The guys we work with - they'd vote for Condoleezza Rice if she were on the ticket. They're pro-America." - By Karen Ball / Kansas City
...year it feels a little more desperate. Stores are starting their promotions earlier in the hopes of luring in customers quickly to spend money - before they're tapped out or the markdowns get any steeper. Black Friday, the Friday after Thanksgiving, is the traditional kick-off of the holiday shopping frenzy, and it will still be the biggest sales generator of the season. But don't sweat it if you can't shop that day. "We will start to get Black Friday level deals every week," says Brad Olson, owner of GottaDeal.com, an online bargain site...
...reason for the earlier discounts: a shorter window to shop. Black Friday falls on November 28th this year, the latest date possible. That means five fewer shopping days (and one less weekend) between Thanksgiving and Christmas than last year. "Stores are trying to grab their share of consumers earlier because they don't think there will be that much to go around," says Stacy Janiak, vice chairman and U.S. retail leader at Deloitte LLP. "If they can get people to shop now it will be better than waiting...
Armed with just one page of sketches drawn the night before, Dang entered Loeb’s costume shop around 11 a.m., and got to work cutting, pinning, sewing, and draping. While holding a handful of pins and working on the back of the gown, Dang begins to discuss her vision. “I knew I had to use black, because I wanted the color to be very reminiscent of the time period...
...hair and they were hooked—and for whom extreme sexual tension causes many an awkward moment. They live together in a dingy apartment, where the only source of heat is an ignited trashcan that constantly crackles in the background. Zack works in the local coffee shop, a warmly lit hub run by an old Indian man who speaks as eloquently as his colleagues, telling Rogan and his associate Delaney (Craig Robinson), “I hate both of you ebony and ivory fuckers.” The film begins with Zack and Miri’s 10-year...