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Laminated Lettuce ... perfect for holiday gift giving.

It's called the Santa Claus effect; the holiday period is traditionally a strong cycle.

When I was filming 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' in America, for a couple of weeks beforehand we would always fit in a family holiday in California.

I have been asked to lend people money - I now only ever give whatever amount is comfortable without thinking it will come back, otherwise when you see that person wearing a new coat or going on holiday you think but yes, where is my money?

Jewish people, we don't believe in Hell or a future place to suffer. We're suffering right now. Every one of our holidays celebrates how much we've suffered. Passover - we're celebrating 5,000 years ago, God passed over our houses and murdered all the Egyptians. We're celebrating, 'Hey, thank God we didn't get slaughtered.

The older I get, the more fun it is to write young people. It's just a holiday from what is becoming old age, really.

It's so simple to create a delicious holiday meal without animal cruelty. I promise no one will miss the turkey!

The film [Sightseers] is really the story of the journey of a relationship, so the killings are almost a metaphor for the trials they go through. We wanted people to identify with the experience of going on holiday and having a quarrel with your wife, boyfriend, whatever. We knew if we didn't crack that it would not be watchable as a film.

Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me.

I'm not gonna lie, I love the holidays. But Christmas was a lot more fun when you weren't paying for it.

President Obama and his family are spending the holidays in Hawaii, and while they're gone, they got a fence jumper to house sit. Tomorrow, he will be in Hawaii playing golf with Raul Castro and the Pope.

Halloween is the beginning of the holiday shopping season. That's for women. The beginning of the holiday shopping season for men is Christmas Eve.

Labour day is a great American holiday that people celebrate by going out and buying products made in China

I think O.J. protests too much. Not only did he say he didn't carve the holiday turkey, but he was in the back yard practicing his golf swing the whole time.

Airport screeners are now scanning holiday fruitcakes. Not even the scanners can tell what those little red things are.

You folks feeling the economic pinch? Are you a little fed up with the economic news? It's bad. The department stores, this holiday season, no Santa Claus. They're laying off department-store Santa Clauses. So more bad news for John McCain.

Stay with CBS now for more news, including: Is there a pall over the mall as holiday shoppers think small?

John Coltrane was an addict; Billie Holiday was an addict; Eugene O'Neill was an addict. What would America be without addicts and post-addicts who make such grand contributions to our society?

Happy Cinco de Mayo! It’s a holiday that’s as respectful of Mexican traditions as Epcot Center’s Mexican food pavilion.

The real question is how the rise in gasoline prices is going to affect the holiday season. I think this will be the toughest test of the consumer in at least four years.

We believe that, with current sales trends still weak, the company's holiday selling season could very well be hampered,

We believe that this is likely to adversely impact sentiment towards semi vendors with exposure to PCs in the absence of what would have been a potentially significant catalyst for PC holiday consumer sales.

We often see an increase in criminal and fraudulent activity of all kinds during the holiday season. People usually feel more generous during the holidays, and they're in the spending mode. Criminals take advantage of this.

We consolidated our services for everywhere just for tomorrow. We'll let the frenzy calm down, and have a one-day reprieve for the holiday weekend for our drivers around the county who are not able to get gas.

We conducted traffic simulations on how all the traffic stacked up. Not just in summer when everyone is gone on vacation, but in the holiday season.

We have found a tremendous optimism among the small and medium-sized businesses that we surveyed. They are looking forward to a great year, planning to expand their work force and marketing, and building on a great online holiday season.

We put this holiday issue out earlier than usual, but it was still in our stores for six weeks. The quarterlies usually stay in stores for between six to eight weeks. Honestly, we would have kept this issue in stores longer if we weren't launching the perfume.

This summer, the consumer was cautious, with all the uncertainty going on in the country. But almost all of those worries are gone, and that is good news at the start of the holiday season.

This restraining order is telling us not to do things we don't do anyway, A memo recently distributed to parents prohibited students from including religious symbols on holiday gifts and cards, including ones related to St. Valentine's Day.

The reason we pulled the holiday issue from stores is because we just launched a new perfume called NOW and we had to make space on the counter for the product.

We saw a similar dip in overall satisfaction, search and ordering process last year, so this isn't a surprise. As we approach the holiday shipping deadline, pressured online shoppers are having a tougher time of finding the products they want and ordering the merchandise in time.

We knew that this would be our toughest quarter as we reached the height of our reposition efforts, ... This is a difficult environment with the possibility of war with Iraq and the West coast port lockout challenges we face in the critical holiday season.

We knew it would be a rough battle. Once the holiday tournaments came around, we gained a lot of confidence.

We thought the shift in the Memorial Day weekend this year to about a week later than last year could hurt holiday sales. That was only an isolated case. I think favorable weather probably had more of an impact that brought people out to stores to shop.

We're not out of the woods yet. Forty percent of holiday sales are wrapped up in the week before Christmas.

We think these results indicate the critical role Web shopping is beginning to play in the U.S. economy. Last year was the beta testing year online for holiday shopping?now we believe the gauntlet for traditional bricks and mortar stores has been thrown down.

Why not? I reckon we will have earned a nice long holiday by then.

To me, the concern right now is that holiday shopping has been spotty . We had a great Black Friday , the week after that was miserable and then sales ticked up again after that,

We had a bit more hiring this time around during the holiday, meaning things were pretty good in the economy. So the seasonal reduction is a little more than normal. A lot of the holiday hiring ends in January and it pretty much finishes up in February.

We avoided the sticker shock from high heating bills in October because it was so warm. If it stays warm through Thanksgiving, we should have a good holiday shopping season.

The quiet in the market has more to do with the holiday than it does with the strike. Foreign exchange is such a global market that if there's a staffing problem in New York City, they can pick up the slack in London or in other centers.

We have served 373 families with almost 1,000 children, and we still have four days to go in our holiday program.

This was an extraordinarily strong quarter, and it was a holiday season that was phenomenally focused on electronics.

The only thing different I know of is they shipped us a big shipment of bottled water; maybe, for the holiday weekend. I wouldn't be surprised if by the end of next week we're out of bottled water.

We've just closed another great year in online commerce. Consumers spent an average of $200 million per day throughout November and December, bringing holiday growth to just about the top end of our forecast of 25 to 30 percent.

The only disappointing part is that my holiday at home has been cut short by a couple of weeks due to some schedule changes that require me back in India earlier in January than I was hoping for.

With Christmas coming on a Sunday, most people feel they can procrastinate a little bit longer because they have until Saturday to finish up their holiday shopping.

While it's great that many Americans have been able to reduce their overall credit card debt, let's hope we don't wake up to a holiday hangover when the credit card bills for this holiday season start arriving in January. If consumers used credit for their holiday purchases this year, they might erase any progress they have made toward paying down their debt.

With Oregon weather unpredictable this time of year, and the fact that it will take some time to line up contractors, it's better to wait until 2006 to begin the remodeling, ... We're also going to wait on the interior work until January so that tenants can get through the busy holiday season.

With only 26 percent of households having completed their holiday shopping . . . this holiday season will certainly come down to the wire.

With some retailers seeing between 25 and 40 percent of their annual sales during the holiday season, there's still time for retailers to show positive gains in 2003,

We will launch in North America, Europe and Japan in the same holiday season. There will probably be a week or 10 days in between the different territories, just to give us a chance to manage the logistics,

We will be very aggressive in affecting stops on people who are driving erratically. New Year's Eve is a holiday where unfortunately too many people imbibe.

We are excited to join these two iconic brands -- America's favorite hotel and America's favorite pastime. Linking Holiday Inn and Major League Baseball is a natural and logical move. Research shows that large numbers of baseball fans are also loyal Holiday Inn guests, and vice-versa. We look forward to the possibilities of what we can accomplish together with Major League Baseball for our mutual fans.

We are excited to be playing in the Las Vegas Holiday Invitational again, ... We have a very inexperienced team this season, and by playing in the tournament, it gives us three extra games, which will be invaluable during the stretch run.

Few market players here are willing to trade aggressively ... this is because of the US holiday today.

Finding a good cleaner that will consistently treat you like a valued customer shouldn't be a guessing game. Having become an Award of Excellence cleaner, Holiday Cleaners is proof that quality cleaners do exist and now, the customers know where to look.

Expectations for the holiday shopping season have been pretty high, but actual sales seem to have fallen a bit short, which is hurting shares.

Exporters are gaining as a strong start to holiday sales eased concerns over any sudden slowdown in the U.S. economy, which has been a worry.

Fact is, famous people say fame stinks because they love it so - like a secret restaurant or holiday island they don't want the hoi polloi to get their grubby paws on.

Every time someone gives their child a hug this holiday season, they're thinking of Joshua. That's why there's this common grief.

The good news is that sales for January seem to be right on track with our previous forecast of 4 percent -- not enough to make up for the holiday shortfall, but a good sign nonetheless,

We've been overwhelmed by the wonderful response we've received at our new locations. It's really been surprising to see how many people have just stopped by and left with our merchandise. We sold out of holiday items very quickly.

We're talking about inventory that would have shipped in the last month and would have appeared in PCs shipping around Thanksgiving, ... You're running smack into the holiday shopping season.

We've been looking for quite a while. The proximity to Holiday Valley, in this case being right across the street, made it a very attractive project.

The Government should officially confirm the reintroduction of the 10-year tax holiday for investors starting up viable businesses in Uganda and ensure land availability free of squatters. The Government should immediately transfer ownership of the fresh handling cold facility at Entebbe so that the sector owns it.

We were extremely successful in our loan production efforts in the fourth quarter, as annualized growth in our core portfolio, excluding short-term holiday loans, was more than 17 percent.

We were especially pleased with the Pepsi Beverages North America volume number, which had been a slight concern heading into the quarter given the holiday shifts.

While the price of gas didn't have an impact on the holiday season, mostly since prices at the pump came down, this is not to say higher heating costs won't affect post-holiday spending.

While the Index remains below its pre-Katrina levels, the shock of the hurricanes and subsequent leap in gas prices has begun wearing off just in time for the holiday season. Despite this latest boost in confidence, holiday spending will be driven by the bargains consumers have come to expect.

We wanted to capture the holiday spirit with spirits. It's a fun way to have the restaurants offer something back at the Mile High price, and we thought it would get people to go out and try different places, too.

We've had very strong sales recently, and we have our fingers crossed for the holiday season.

We've had a nice holiday season, just not as nice a season as we've had in the past or as I'd hoped for.

We've had much debate here about the holiday season, ... Higher gas prices have mostly taken more money away from low-income consumers.

We've got 40 000 places in our working holiday scheme for young people of other countries to come work and live in our country on a receptacle basis.

We know that digging razor clams is a holiday tradition for a lot of families, and the tides cooperated this year.

We'll have the same schedule of events, just a different holiday weekend.

We're taking no chances in marketing this holiday season,

There can be no changes. This is not a holiday gift you can go and exchange. If the city sees fit in its wisdom to accept it, so be it.

We've heard some disappointing reports about the final couple of weeks before the holidays, so we won't see as big of an increase in December, ... but when you combine November and December, this is about the best holiday season we've seen since 1999.

We had a great holiday package that included a room, breakfast gift certificates with downtown Staunton and what we saw we had a lot of people trying out the hotel.

This team needs to give some maximum effort and that has not been the case over the holiday season. Quite honestly, I think our seniors have tried to do a good job of leading this team and being patient. But now it's time for some of these sophomore and freshmen kids to stop acting like babies and start playing like young men. It was a great meeting but now it's time to quit talking about it and start doing it.

We had a highly successful back-to-school season, ... And we believe we will do even better with the new lineup for the holiday season.

I am not a great fan of the payroll tax holiday because I'm nervous about what it does to the future of Social Security.

We want to give a holiday to the driving public, an opportunity to drive without the federal gas tax for at least thirty days,

We were obviously disappointed by sales for this holiday season, particularly because we had been outperforming the retail sector as a whole for the previous nine months,

Though many consumers are more financially comfortable now than they were a year ago, they are still looking for great prices and savings on gifts and everyday merchandise. The retailers that succeed this holiday season will be those that continue to focus on sales and promotions to drive traffic.

To keep the spending momentum going beyond the holiday period I think shops are going to have to discount quite heavily so I would sell the retailers into the current rally.

With holiday sales looking a little better than expectations and the Purchasing Managers Index up when we were expecting a decline, it's clear that the fear that many had that we had slowed down too far is unwarranted.

This year, it is more about stores' trying to manage their business, their inventories and markdowns. They're also recognizing a second holiday season, which begins December 26.

When I was ten, I spent a school holiday watching a lot of films: 'Dead Poets Society', 'Stand By Me', 'Home Alone' and 'The Goonies'. It completely inspired me. I told my parents I wanted to become an actor after that.

We try not to focus on specific words, and we don't have a standing policy that says you have to use holiday or Christmas or one or the other. We just want our customers to feel comfortable whatever faith they may be and ask sales associates to be sensitive to that.

We weren't going to Denver for a holiday - we were there to shake things up and go for it.

When all the numbers are counted, consumers could have given retailers an early holiday present, ... Last year Black Friday spending on our cards totaled $3.6 billion. We could cross $4 billion this year.

We went along with the suggestion, based on the calendar, the fact it's the end of a holiday weekend, and that there was an incident the last time the Jets played here at night.

We went all-out to make sure we delivered for customers this holiday season.

We expect the market to remain in consolidation mood for now, though thin trading conditions ahead of the long holiday weekend could well spark big price movements.

We expect holiday sales for consumer electronics to be OK. Last year was such as a good year that the big gains maybe aren't sustainable.

We expect group's performance to continue to be volatile as concerns about a promotional and lackluster holiday season remain the near-term focus.

We expect Electronic Arts to have a compelling holiday lineup versus its peers, which should be a catalyst.