The rate of almost $2,000 was for the Christmas season in general, not specifically the 2017 Christmas season.
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She's going to buy it during the Christmas season, because 35 percent of all books are sold during the Christmas season.
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Epps said the Christmas season offers rich opportunities for storytelling.
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The Queen has had a busy Christmas season so far.
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There's no shortage of festive entertainment during London's Christmas season.
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The Christmas season was strong, and hiring surged in December.
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Its third quarter includes a typically busy December Christmas season.
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In this small space, Christmas season has not yet begun.
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This Christmas season, the Royal family is bonding over pudding.
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St. Nicholas became the main character of the Christmas season.
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Every Christmas season, kindhearted New Yorkers enlist as surrogate Santas.
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When it's not Christmas season, House of Holiday sells Halloween decorations.
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According to Twitter, October falling into November is officially Christmas season.
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We spent Thanksgiving Day in darkness, the Christmas season was bitter.
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This charming 1940 holiday classic is prefect for the Christmas season.
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He says it's his own way of marking the Christmas season.
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"And as that happens, we'll be going into the Christmas season."
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This might explain why it became associated with the Christmas season.
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Bethlehem's Christmas season lasts through the Eastern Orthodox celebration on Jan.
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"We added 1,000 bed places just this Christmas season," she said.
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An enchanting evening celebrating the Christmas season & all of our winning!
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And nobody wants to take any chance of disrupting the Christmas season.
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Collect them all and make this your most magical Christmas season yet.
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Since this is the Christmas season, let's start with the virgin birth.
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That still gives Fox something to show audiences during the lucrative Christmas season.
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One Utah family is adding some extra holiday cheer to the Christmas season.
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Here's a great opportunity for them to raise prices, right before Christmas season.
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Lapland, Finland is known for its dedication to celebrating the festive Christmas season.
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Bieschke: The first time I really walked in was during the Christmas season.
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And is the popularity of the "Messiah" as a Christmas season event significant?
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For Santa Rick, the Christmas season starts in early October, and sometimes even earlier.
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December 2017 The Christmas season seemingly didn't foster goodwill between the two rap queens.
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We spent the Christmas season without power, preparing to move, and in funeral homes.
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The first Christmas-season election in Britain since 1923 will be hard to call.
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Rob Delaney is making sure his youngest child's memory lives on this Christmas season.
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FLOTUS added she's excited for everyone to experience the beauty of the Christmas season.
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The Christmas season means I'll be home again, and that means meeting more people.
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Christmas season isn't the only time that children will be drawn to Rockefeller Center.
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"We're doing this for the Christmas season," President Donald Trump told reporters on Aug. 13.
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It's $95 and I tip my gal $20 plus another $20 for the Christmas season.
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The upcoming Christmas season is a critical time for sales for poultry farmers throughout Europe.
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FOR many countries across the world December 210st marks the beginning of the Christmas season.
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With over 1,500 NORAD volunteers contributing each Christmas season, it is a mission taken seriously.
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The upcoming Christmas season is a critical time of sales for poultry farmers throughout Europe.
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In Britain, the Christmas season doesn't officially begin with lights, mince pies, or shopping holidays.
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TRUMP SAYS DELAYED TARIFFS FOR CHRISTMAS SEASON IN CASE IT HAD AN IMPACT ON SHOPPING
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The Christmas season seems to start earlier every year, it is often noted — or lamented.
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The campaign was scheduled to begin on December 3 and run through the Christmas season.
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The advisers appealed to Trump's affinity for the Christmas season, according to the people familiar.
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"We should no longer schedule our summer holidays over the Christmas season," Professor Eckersley said.
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Part of this process has long involved finding our way through the frenzied Christmas season.
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Second only to Santa, Hallmark is taking another step to prove they own the Christmas season.
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Time to toss your pumpkins and spooky decorations — according to Mariah Carey, it's officially Christmas season!
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But as any human would tell you, the Christmas season can actually be kind of sad.
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Watford's Roberto Pereyra is out here, letting you know that it's getting close to Christmas season.
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The numbers will reflect higher-than-usual holiday hiring, as retailers anticipate a robust Christmas season.
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They say Christmas season gets earlier every year, and the same seems to apply to CES.
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Rooms go as low as $101 during low season and $440 during Miami's busier Christmas season.
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But the hundreds of letters that appeared on his doorstep every Christmas season convinced him otherwise.
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For example, McMillon said stores didn't have the right mix of apparel over the Christmas season.
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It was a truly wonderful experience for me and one that I miss every Christmas season.
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Meanwhile, Dwight takes advantage of the hottest toy of the Christmas season, the Princess Unicorn doll.
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Retailers have reported a mixed start to the Christmas season which is crucial for their profits.
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"The Christmas season is a very difficult season for Christians in Iran," Ms. Bet-Tamraz said.
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It's just as Cecily Strong says, Christmas season is like the Super Bowl for the Hallmark channel.
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This time, they took the Christmas season off and have been heading home for their regular weekends.
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We had two dates, but it was during the Christmas season where you have like zero time!
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Workers begin to assemble this dry tannenbaum in September until it is lit for the Christmas season.
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They try once, they jump right into cat cage, they stay there for rest of Christmas season.
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"We're doing this for the Christmas season," Trump told reporters on an airport tarmac around noon Tuesday.
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The song later went on to sell more than a quarter-million copies during that Christmas season.
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It was the Christmas season, Mr. Woods explained, and the guard wanted to demonstrate their shared faith.
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It's the day after Thanksgiving, which, of course, means that Christmas season has arrived in full force.
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A pillow cover with the characters' names in a tree shape is perfect for the Christmas season.
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Once the Christmas season is over, it will be returned there and used for other sand sculptures.
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"The Marine Toys for Tots is one of my favorite events during the Christmas season," Trump said.
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The museum is open year-round, seven days a week with extended hours during the Christmas season.
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" - Lisa Stardust (@lisastardustastro) "I was 16 working in retail during Christmas season: 'Let me decorate your Christmas tree.
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Before the clock has even struck midnight on Halloween, Rockefeller Center is already ushering in the Christmas season.
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St Nicholas, or Santa Claus, whose December name day coincided with the Christmas season, became the holiday's mascot.
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And Michaels recommends using any extra downtime you have during the Christmas season to squeeze in a workout.
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Click here to view original GIFThe Furby was the hottest toy of the Christmas season back in 1996.
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Even though Trump criticized Starbucks' red cups last winter, the coffee chain had its best Christmas season ever.
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After missing the Christmas season, Apple's answer to Amazon Echo, Sonos and Google Home started taking preorders yesterday.
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Security has been tight around the Vatican and many other tourist areas in Rome for the Christmas season.
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"Lights On" is the rare sort of Christmas-season track that you might play any time of year.
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"The Christmas season has no charm for the prosaic employees of the Dead Letter Office," the article said.
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Why is it important that the church calendar tells this story at the beginning of the Christmas season?
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For more than 30 years, she made gingerbread houses for each household in her extended family every Christmas season.
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A doting mother and "grammy," she made gingerbread houses for each household in her extended family every Christmas season.
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Even before the family's holiday getaway, Carey and her kids — with ex Nick Cannon — were enjoying the Christmas season.
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"The economy is still doing pretty well," Yardeni said, adding retailers are indicating they're seeing record Christmas season sales.
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And of course, the parade will help kick off the Christmas season with the Singing Christmas Tree and Santa.
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In much of America, the Christmas season means candy canes, carols, claymation specials, and all that wholesome childhood jazz.
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But that data lacks Christmas season sales, which could have added around a million people, according to the article.
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Trump said the move was designed to avoid any potential impact on holiday shopping ahead of the Christmas season.
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It's not officially the Christmas season until you have an epic baking fail — and Ryan Reynolds is no stranger.
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Now that Halloween is behind us, it's time to start calibrating your holiday viewing for the impending Christmas season.
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For Mariah Carey, this year's Christmas season started promptly on Halloween night, just as the clock struck 12 a.m.
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If you're into that, it's kind of sweet, and thoughtful gifts are what the Christmas season is all about!
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Christmas season is upon us, and with it comes the gifts that truly keep on giving: celebrity Christmas specials.
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The grass-roots surveillance network in the United States is poised for yet another major expansion this Christmas season.
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In our latest installment, we hear from four people about working in bars across Britain during the Christmas season.
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Brice and his wife Sara are preparing for their first Christmas season with a daughter, 5-month-old Trulee Nanette.
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President Donald Trump said Tuesday he delayed the tariffs ahead of Christmas season to avoid potential impact on holiday shopping.
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"Dean loved the Christmas lights as well as the joy that the Christmas season brought with it," Curiazza tells PEOPLE.
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Amazon is gearing up for the Christmas season by allowing customers to get instant vouchers for trading their unwanted possessions.
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Zwarte Piet is a character who accompanies Saint Nicholas, or Sinterklaas in Dutch, during the figure's arrival each Christmas season.
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Able for the first time to travel without a permit, her family visited Vienna during the Christmas season in 1989.
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Retail sales in the U.K. dropped in December, despite the Christmas season, as consumers took advantage of Black Friday deals.
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Trump has said he delayed tariffs on such products to avoid hurting Christmas season sales of Apple Inc and others.
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A few years ago on Black Friday, that horrid stampede of Christmas season greed, REI did something revolutionary — it closed.
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Adam Sandler's 1994 classic "The Chanukah Song" was written for Jewish kids who feel left out during the Christmas season.
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The latest tsunami, coming during the Christmas season, evoked memories of the Indian Ocean tsunami triggered by an earthquake on Dec.
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The Hough siblings host the event and are joined by Descendants 2 star Sofia Carson to kick off the Christmas season.
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House Democrats privately admitted that the investigation was likely to now extend into the Christmas season (they had previously said Thanksgiving).
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Writer Claire Hodgson from Cosmopolitan U.K. recently broke down the timeline of the film, which takes place over the Christmas season.
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Before the Christmas season, at least nine English-language books will come out devoted to explaining the elusive quality of hygge.
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Little known fact: The movie about several interconnected love stories over one Christmas season in London actually exists all year long.
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"A Benihana Christmas" — Season 3, Episode 10 Michael's girlfriend/real-estate agent Carol dumps him for being too extra, which, understandable.
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Then one Christmas season they called us all in and we were so busy that they didn't make us log in.
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"This is another first for [Trump] doing more creative and open things for the people during the Christmas season," Pickens said.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Music is as much a part of the Christmas season as nativity scenes, snow and Santa grottos.
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Trump said Tuesday his decision to delay tariffs ahead of the Christmas season was to avoid an impact on holiday shopping.
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In the 2017 Christmas season, shoppers chose discounts and convenience over Toys R Us. The retailer's fate was all but sealed.
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Burlington, Kentucky, hosts Old Kentucky Christmas every year, and it takes guests back in time while also celebrating the Christmas season.
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In the Christmas season, we have permission to turn the Gold Rooms in our homes to centers of even greater opulence!
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I'm willing to give WOOD DEER a pass, because I believe I've seen these on friends' hearths during the Christmas season.
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Last Christmas season, Ms. Backhaus prepared a big pot of lamb curry, saffron rice and aloo gobi for her own brood.
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The chief minister, the Honorable Victor Banks, said the island plans to open for business before the all-important Christmas season.
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That said, one indomitable annual variety program has defined the odds: Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, which kicks off the Christmas season.
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Fireworks accidents are not uncommon in Mexico, especially during the Christmas season, when families purchase hundreds of fireworks for the holidays.
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This Christmas season, astronauts aboard the International Space Station got into the holiday spirit by baking cookies for Santa in microgravity.
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The latest disaster, coming during the Christmas season, evoked memories of the Indian Ocean tsunami triggered by an earthquake on Dec.
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She began making more, and we got to the point where we were making ten to 21.25,23 pieces during the Christmas season.
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The timing of the disaster over the Christmas season evoked memories of the Indian Ocean tsunami triggered by an earthquake on Dec.
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For years, Black Friday had been the day for deals and shopping, basically serving as the unofficial kickoff to the Christmas season.
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She recently welcomed the Christmas season with a cuddly Instagram showing herself and her beau Tyga snuggling up by the Christmas tree.
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WEDNESDAY • The Christmas season formally kicks off, with the lighting of the National Christmas Tree on the Ellipse at the White House.
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During Christmas season, people would disguise their identities using a mishmash of household items and travel door to door to neighbors' homes.
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Spend an evening this Christmas season in downtown Ramallah, with the lights, trendy new restaurants, Palestinian craft beer and think about revolution.
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President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the move was designed to avoid any potential impact on holiday shopping ahead of Christmas season.
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"We're doing this for Christmas season, just in case some of the tariffs would have an impact on U.S. customers," Trump said.
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Soon after, inspired by her mother-in-law's Calder necklace, Ms. Guinness organized a Christmas-season sales exhibition of jewelry by artists.
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Watch it nowA struggling actor gets hired to wear a plush suit to promote Pooka, the hottest toy of the Christmas season.
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Maybe it's time to adopt some more commanding or even terrifying Christmas-season icons — like the German Krampus or the Japanese Namahage.
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"We're doing this for Christmas season, just in case some of the tariffs would have an impact on US customers," Trump said.
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Jennifer Garner is decking more than just her halls this Christmas season — she's also decking the stalls of her backyard chicken coop!
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If you&aposre in need of some last-minute cash this Christmas season, consider trying one of these flexible holiday side hustles.
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The merengue star Johnny Ventura used this song to make it clear how Dominicans handle their nearly four-month-long Christmas season.
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This song is frequently played throughout the Christmas season even though there is no specific mention of the holiday in its lyrics.
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The occurrence of the disaster during the Christmas season evoked memories of the Indian Ocean tsunami triggered by an earthquake on Dec.
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As the Obamas take part in their final Christmas season at the White House, they have chosen a holiday theme filled with symbolism.
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Mariah Carey, pop legend and official authority on all things Christmas-related, announced with a video on Twitter the start of Christmas season.
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They added three million new Prime members this Christmas season, who can use Amazon's Kindle Owners Lending Library to check out free books.
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How will Shepard, Bell and their two kids, Lincoln, 5, and Delta, who will turn 4 next month, be celebrating the Christmas season?
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In early modern Europe, between about 1500 and 1800, the Christmas season meant a lull in agricultural labour and a chance to indulge.
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Of course, the Hatchimal is just the latest in a long line of toys that fly off the shelves during the Christmas season.
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President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the move was designed to avoid any potential impact on holiday shopping ahead of the Christmas season.
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"We're doing this for Christmas season, just in case some of the tariffs would have an impact on U.S. customers," Trump told reporters.
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In Norway and some other Scandinavian countries, a red-hat-wearing, elf-like creature named Julenisse has been associated with the Christmas season.
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The Christmas season is about many things, but one of my personal favorite traditions is the small gift known as the stocking stuffer.
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Beyond leaving those who celebrate with fewer days to feel merry and bright, the shortened Christmas season can also be detrimental for retailers.
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But after a weak Christmas season, creditors doubted whether the company had a viable future and pushed to close its United States operations.
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On another day during the busy Christmas season, plainclothes police entered one of Hong Kong's big shopping arcades; protesters spotted them at once.
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Like most American ballet troupes, the Joffrey depends heavily on the box-office revenues of its Christmas-season "Nutcracker" to balance the books.
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Its virtue lies in its capacity to provoke us to think about a work we too often take for granted each Christmas season.
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The total is a fraction of the 700,000 drones that officials have said they expected to be sold during the recently ended Christmas season.
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This Christmas season, indulge in some flavored vodka, because at this rate, who knows how much longer we'll have the opportunity to do so.
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But it's easy to overlook just how big of a role candy plays during the Christmas season—candy canes, chocolate Santas, even Hanukkah gelt!
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" Opposite the portrait is the message, "May the Christmas season fill your home with joy, your heart with love and your life with laughter.
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Visa said November's so-called Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales would provide a clearer sign of how the Christmas season was shaping up.
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He now lives with his dog in a 1990 Airstream and works 12-hour shifts during the pre-Christmas season at an Amazon warehouse.
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But when word got out that Toys "R" Us had hired restructuring advisers, the company's vendors were spooked heading into the crucial Christmas season.
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It might seem unbelievable given that the "Christmas creep" now begins before Halloween, but the true Christmas season actually starts on Christmas Day itself.
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Yes, we'll have lots more to talk about, I'm sure, as we move into the Christmas season, especially on Amazon and all kinds of things.
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Still, the company reckons it will rack up sales of up to $78bn over the Christmas season, which would make this its best quarter ever.
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The Christmas season is going to be as short as it can ever be this year — and it's all thanks to the placement of Thanksgiving.
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The initial letter Xyza received contained a photo of her mother during their first Christmas season apart and sticks like a thorn in her memory.
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He said that he was not offended by the sausage roll, but that he believed that Jesus should be the focus of the Christmas season.
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Those women received recognition once the film "Hidden Figures" came out in limited release during the 2016 Christmas season before being widely released in 2017.
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He also appeared as himself in "Home for the Holidays," a songs-and-stories revue that had a limited run during the 21976 Christmas season.
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One child after another began calling CONAD, so Shoup grabbed a few airmen to man the phones and play Santa as the Christmas season progressed.
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The space hasn't changed all that much since the trio and several other college friends rented it for a few weeks over that Christmas season.
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I would hang out at Le Bon Marché for a couple of hours a week over a couple of months, culminating during the Christmas season.
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In the Philippines, where the Christmas season is said to start with the "-ber" months, Christmas is celebrated in many ways, but largely through food.
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"At this time of the year, everyone is looking to go out and spend for the Christmas season," says Rakesh Patel, vice president of Experian CreditMatch.
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"I perform the song, but as far as sitting around and listening to it, I try to wait until it's the Christmas season," says Carey, 47.
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"We're doing this for Christmas season, just in case some of the tariffs would have an impact on U.S. customers," Trump told reporters in New Jersey.
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During the rainy Christmas season, Mr. Kaine accompanied Father Patricio as ecstatic children in rural towns greeted their mules in anticipation of getting gifts of peppermints.
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It's an example of the importance Puerto Ricans place on the Christmas season, when family feasts and roving parties known as parrandas happen seemingly every week.
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The October 2017 press release initially said it would close no later than August 10, 2018, with the renovation work beginning after that year's Christmas season.
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The couple met during the Christmas season in 2013 while volunteering to wrap gifts for the needy in the basement at St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington.
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ANNA AND THE APOCALYPSE If teenage romance and an evil headmaster weren't trouble enough, high schoolers suddenly find themselves besieged by zombies over the Christmas season.
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"No matter one's faith or beliefs, the Christmas season reflects all that is best in the American spirit," Trump said at the tree lighting in 2018.
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It was particularly painful that the fire, a disaster of a magnitude modern Gatlinburg has never seen, would come at the onset of the Christmas season.
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Like budget discussions in March and the end of session in June, the governor's Christmas-season push may merely be tactical, a starting point for negotiations.
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Swiss chocolate giant Nestlé (NSRGF) has announced a luxury, handcrafted version of the popular chocolate bar for the United Kingdom, in time for the Christmas season.
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The museum acquired 6,600 ornaments from Indiana Hallmark retailer, the Party Shop, in November, and has a small selection currently on display for this Christmas season.
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The toy, they write, "blurs the line between play time and real life" by dint of the elf's never-ending surveillance (at least during the Christmas season).
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It might be the general package-heavy Christmas season, or it might have to do with a Washington Post story detailing the White House's worries for 2018.
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"This Christmas season we would like to remind everyone that Jesus was a Middle Eastern refugee," reads the card sent by Whitney Roberts Logan and her family.
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They're about two attractive, single individuals spontaneously brought together during the Christmas season, which, according to pop culture, is more magical than any other 30-day span.
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It's terrible and yet every Christmas season white people in these countries dress up as Black Pete, thinking this practice is very normal because of the culture.
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"We're doing this for Christmas season, just in case some of the tariffs would have an impact on U.S. customers," Trump said on Tuesday after the announcement.
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President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he is delaying some tariffs on Chinese imports ahead of the Christmas season to stem their potential impact on holiday shopping.
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"Nobody wants to take any chance of disrupting the Christmas season," Ross said, adding that "this was not a quid pro quo" in trade negotiations with Beijing.
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But come the Christmas season — the busiest period of the year for the industry — malls are still swamped and stores need all the help they can get.
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He will visit Cairo's largest Coptic cathedral to pray for the 28 people killed in a Christmas season blast last year and lay flowers in their memory.
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"The Trump administration is driving the vulnerable into hunger just as the Christmas season approaches," Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader, said on Wednesday.
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The Philippines The Philippines has the longest and most lavish Christmas season in the world, with holiday light displays, masses and festivals held from September through January.
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Security has been tight around the Vatican for the Christmas season, with military jeeps stationed at key access routes and tourists undergoing metal detector and bag searches.
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Jah said the venue - Bethel Memorial Methodist Church - was on high alert as Christian places of worship are often targeted by Islamist extremists over the Christmas season.
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Tiffany Trump made her relationship Instagram official on Saturday, when she posted a picture of herself and boyfriend Michael Boulos in the White House during the Christmas season.
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According to her blog Heavenly Days, Heigl's mother Nancy threw the party — which was heavily inspired by both the Christmas season and the family's nature-rich home environment.
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She gets some help from returning native son Jeffrey Butler (James Patterson), who wants to sell the house where the troubles began during a long-ago Christmas season.
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He battled with his party's strategy on immigration, the debt ceiling and the budget, even one time pulling GOP senators into session on a Saturday during Christmas season.
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We happened to be planning a trip to New York that Christmas season with my sister and her husband, and Michael C. Hall had taken over the role.
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Yet every Christmas season, scores of letters addressed to Santa Claus arrive at a certain Apartment 7 on West 22nd Street, and no one seems to know why.
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While baklava and kataifi are traditional Greek desserts during the Christmas season, my dad told me that he always makes the dishes as an homage to his parents.
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Going into the Christmas season a few years ago I got a grim note from Brian Doyle, a gifted storyteller and writer, New York born, Oregonian by choice.
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Their weekly grosses are now near their weekly running costs, but they should rise over the coming weeks as Thanksgiving and the Christmas season bring more tourists to town.
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Thomas B. Cusick, Columbia's chief operating officer, said the company has received its entire fall shipment already, as well as the "lion's share" of merchandise for the Christmas season.
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The Christmas season is terrorized by a marble-eyed fuzzy lumpkin that yips tinny gibberish non-stop, which becomes the most-desired holiday item by children across the country.
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Handel's "Messiah" has become such a staple of the Christmas season that New Yorkers can choose from dozens of performances offered in concert halls and churches throughout the city.
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He and his wife, Debra, and members of his executive team visit each factory every Christmas season, donning blue aprons embroidered with "Brooks Brothers" to serve lunch to workers.
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It came to him, he said, in the hardware department of a Sears-like store during a busy Christmas season, with his low tolerance for crowds as a catalyst.
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While the church has long provided food during the Christmas season, this year the congregation doubled the effort to about 300 meals, while also providing information about filing claims.
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The best of these stories, "The Frog King," rivals John Updike's "The Happiest I Have Been," set in the same Christmas season, as a great American story about happiness.
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Former President Obama wished Twitter followers a Merry Christmas on Monday on behalf of his family, marking their first Christmas season outside of the White House in eight years.
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As it makes its way from the Vatican to Jerusalem and then on to Bethlehem, this small piece of history is expected to attract more pilgrims this Christmas season.
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"Christmas reminds us that God continues to love us all, even the worst of us," Francis, presiding at the seventh Christmas season of his pontificate, said in his sermon.
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There are well-known classics like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Untouchables, Goodfellas, and, for the Christmas season, It's a Wonderful Life and Miracle on 34th Street.
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"Following a bumper Christmas season, there were signs that consumers were starting to rein in their spending at the start of the New Year," Visa managing director Kevin Jenkins said.
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Caracas, Venezuela (CNN)Venezuelan officials have confiscated nearly 4 million toys from a toy distributor, accusing the company of planning to sell them at inflated prices during the Christmas season.
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The box also includes a space where "Scout Elf" can write kids a personalized message, which can be used to warn children to behave during the Christmas season — or else.
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While most of us are still trying to wrangle up a suitable Halloween costume, Lifetime has gone straight into the Christmas season with its annual slate of original holiday programming.
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When designing the plot of Bandersnatch, Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker likely looked to an incident in 1983, when British company Imagine Software was gearing up for its Christmas season.
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My point was that because it is now included in the Christmas catalog of songs — attention is only given to it during the Christmas season — it has eluded rigorous study.
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For those celebrating, it marked the culmination of of the Christmas season, but for those celebrating a different kind of holiday, it marked the culmination of the Kardashian Christmas card.
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In Missouri and around the country, city mayors light festively decorated Christmas trees to announce the beginning of the Christmas season and all the economic activity that comes with it.
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"We're doing this for the Christmas season" to avoid any adverse impact on U.S. shoppers, Trump told reporters as he prepared to leave New Jersey for an event in Pittsburgh.
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And Anschutz, being a professing Christian, decided to close the magazine at the height of the Christmas season, and so cause maximum pain to his former employees and their families.
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With the Christmas season quickly approaching, Netflix is giving fans their first glimpse at the third installment in the Christmas Prince movie franchise — and PEOPLE has an exclusive first look!
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Britain's National Secular Society, a lobby group whose declared aim is to end religious privilege, chose the Christmas season to issue a wide-ranging report on the public role of faith.
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Luxury groups such as SMCP, Hermes and LVMH, which are heavily dependent on foreign tourists visiting Paris during the Christmas season are likely to suffer, said Berenberg analysts in a report.
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We will celebrate the Christmas season just as we did with her and our older sister Carole, and with our mother and father because they will live in our hearts forever.
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Europe will get the AI Cube "in the Christmas season," the US may or may not get it, and Huawei has no plans for this exact model in its native China.
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While hoverboards became one of the most popular gadgets to own during the Christmas season, they have grown increasingly dangerous, with widespread reports of explosions and fires caused by the devices.
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Forget the music, or the mince pies, or the first snowfall — the way you truly know it's Christmas season is when British department store John Lewis drop their annual Christmas ad.
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Critic's Notebook This week brought one of those mini-festivals that seem to sprout periodically in New York's classical music ecosystem: four evenings of choral music tied to the Christmas season.
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Mostyn said diamond demand over the Christmas season and in the new year in the United States had been encouraging, suggesting the U.S. market could drive growth for the diamond industry.
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The 2015 Christmas season in New York looked more like Los Angeles, with Santas sweating in their stockings, runners in shirts and tank tops, and surfers paddling out on Christmas morning.
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Apple had its strongest Christmas season ever, at least in terms of app sales, but concerns about the iPhone continue to loom large over the company and drag down its stock price.
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What's next: Elections take five weeks, so campaigning needs to start almost immediately to avoid a run-in with the Christmas season (which poses challenges for venue-booking, weather and voter turnout).
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The tech was even more rudimentary for John Jacobs as he drove in a minivan from door to door in a quintessential Polish neighborhood, West Alilis, famous for its Christmas season decorations.
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This Christmas season I'll be going back to my hometown in Ohio to spend a week with my family to do a lot of eating, sleeping, Bravo-binging (you get the gist).
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Cheery results from the first UK retailer to report on the Christmas season caused a rally in retail stocks across the market, delivering relief to investors in a sector facing significant challenges.
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" In December 2015, Grossman posted that Kwanzaa was "a phony holiday invented in 1960's by black racists to weaken and divide Americans during a Christmas season of joy and good will.
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" In December 2015, Grossman wrote that Kwanzaa was "a phony holiday invented in 1960's by black racists to weaken and divide Americans during a Christmas season of joy and good will.
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It's hard to tell, but given the Christmas season basically starts now, he, Fox News, and the rest of the culture war-stoking conservative media are likely to turn to Christmas instead.
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In a remarkable, record-breaking turn of events, no murders have taken place in the Big Apple for six days straight, during the Christmas season, no less, the New York Daily News reported.
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She would awaken in the middle of the night screaming and suffered a panic attack when a FedEx delivery man showed up at the front door to deliver packages during the Christmas season.
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According to Laurent Vanat, a winter sports consultant based in Geneva, the overall economic impact of the decidedly un-white Christmas season could mean a loss of between two to three billion dollars.
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The contagious H5N8 strain has been found in about 540 wild birds in Germany in recent weeks but few cases were found on farms as the crucial Christmas season for poultry sales starts.
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" Brooks also added that, "Anschutz, being a professing Christian, decided to close the magazine at the height of the Christmas season, and so cause maximum pain to his former employees and their families.
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Noank is a very, very small town on Fishers Island Sound — every Christmas [season] the people who live there put out paper bags with lights in them; there are a thousand of them.
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And the torture report is a good example of that: When they released the torture report on a Friday afternoon, during the Christmas season, nobody saw it coming, and it was heavily redacted.
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That milestone neatly coincided with the annual five-week Christmas season of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, the theater's first resident modern dance company, itself celebrating an anniversary this year: its 60th.
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French retailers and hoteliers have warned that their crucial Christmas season could be derailed if a strike - which was causing travel chaos for the eighth day on Thursday - drags on for much longer.
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GAZA (Reuters) - Wooden relics said to be from the manger that held the infant Jesus will be returned from Rome to Bethlehem in time for the Christmas season, Palestinian officials said on Friday.
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Where technology and economics collide It's everyone's least favorite part of the Christmas season: You're expected to get a present for your brother-in-law, but you have no idea what he wants.
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Cheery results from the first UK retailer to report on the crucial Christmas season caused a rally in retail stocks across the market, delivering relief to investors in a sector faced with significant challenges.
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As the election enters overtime, tying up the Virginia elections agency and state and federal courts in the usually quiet Christmas season, the political parties are focusing on at least two Republican-held seats.
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" He made the plaza's centerpiece a personal project, and started with the wise observation that "every visitor, and every New Yorker, wants to go to Rockefeller Center during Christmas season, to see the tree.
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But because the date of Thanksgiving is variable — it's always the fourth Thursday in November, meaning it can fall anywhere between November 22 to 28 — the length of the Christmas season is as well.
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My mother would buy all these ingredients each Christmas season, invariably at the closest thing to a supermarket in the London suburb where I grew up — which was called, appropriately, The Home and Colonial.
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Eat There are a great many reasons to recommend the Christmas season in Francophone Canada and northern New England (let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!), but chief among them is tourtière.
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Suffice to say that the Christmas season is so massive for Hallmark's TV properties that it even buoys the company's streaming site, Hallmark Movies NOW, which grew 49 percent between October and December 2017.
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With fires lit by protesters still smoldering in some of France's largest cities on Sunday, local officials and small businesses voiced their dismay over the vandalism and lost business during the usually busy Christmas season.
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Then, in August, with Halloween approaching—the Christmas season for horror retail—friends texted Cassidy, telling him they'd seen a wave of new Chainsaw designs for sale online, mainly marketed through Facebook and Instagram ads.
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The retailer just released an entire Harry-Potter-themed holiday collection, so now you can spend the Christmas season pretending you're sipping butterbeer with Harry, Hermione, and Ron (wearing his "R" Christmas sweater, of course).
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"Each year when the pyramid goes up, children young and old will know that the Christmas season has arrived," said Drew Green, the director of the Cullman County Museum, a replica of Mr. Cullmann's house.
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The film is based on E.T.A. Hoffman's short story written in 1816 and Alexandre Dumas' retelling in the 1892 Tchaikovsky ballet "The Nutcracker," which is now performed on stages around the world during the Christmas season.
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Religion News Service's Tobin Grant suggests that the need for something frivolous to break up the monotony and cold weather rendered the Christmas season, rather than early spring, the ideal time for a period of celebration.
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Premium has not renewed a contract to air two Disney channels after it expired and has cut spending to a minimum, including its Christmas season advertising campaign, a source close to the matter said in October.
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There are no signs yet of major buyers shifting orders away from Bangladesh, not least because the production cycle has entered the busy Christmas season and pulling out business now would be expensive and logistically challenging.
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After sales in October were dampened by unseasonably warm weather, Ritter said Zalando had a strong end to the year, helped by marketing and pricing, especially around the Black Friday sales and for the Christmas season.
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I eventually get out of bed and make a couple of eggs and toast for me and my boyfriend, C. I am excited because Christmas season means cookies and baked goods, and days off from work!
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LONDON, Nov 25 (Reuters) - British retailers saw a stronger-than-expected improvement in sales in November and are more upbeat about the month ahead, which includes the key Christmas season, an industry survey showed on Monday.
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It wasn't necessarily a happily ever after, but Johnson said her real life mirrored the things she loves about Hallmark's Christmas movies: a bit of joy amid some darkness, all taking place during the Christmas season.
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To ring in the Christmas season, the Tennessee Valley Railroad is having a special Christmas-themed round-trip train ride from Chattanooga, where you&aposll get more than your dose of holiday cheer (and alcoholic beverages).
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Disney has continued its never-ending race to outdo itself in the culinary realm, creating new themed treats for special occasions, holidays and movie releases year round—but the Christmas season really shines above the rest.
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About 430 people were killed, with at least 159 missing, after a tsunami off the west coast of Java during the Christmas season evoked memories of the Indian Ocean tsunami triggered by a massive earthquake on Dec.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Swimmers across Europe marked the Epiphany feast day on Friday by diving into icy waters to retrieve wooden crosses as part of a range of Christian celebrations to mark the end of the Christmas season.
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This could be the best back-to-back holiday season in more than five years, but a top Wall Street retail analyst says that many of the retail sector's troubles will persist even during the Christmas season.
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MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has declared a 10-day unilateral ceasefire with communist rebels to allow Filipinos to celebrate a "stress-free" Christmas season, two weeks after peace talks with the insurgents were formally scrapped.
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The violence around the protests has led to enormous losses for commerce and tourism in the prime pre-Christmas season, and the government's concessions, including the cancellation of a fuel price increase, will cost the government billions.
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ANTHONY TOMMASINI AT 53 SECONDS Tenet ushered out the Christmas season on Wednesday with Vespers music of the 17th-century German master Michael Praetorius, who has always struck me as the proprietor of the holiday candy store.
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Can you give us more sense as to how that works or what that meant on the ground during the Christmas season for, for example, in terms of your ability to fulfill customers and a more effective way?
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It's just one of those movies I have to watch every Christmas season, so you can probably guess that my heart grew three sizes when I saw this photo of Jude Law and Kate Winslet reuniting on Monday.
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People who worked Black Friday got time and a half, so everyone was initially very happy, but by the time the Christmas season was over, people were so burnt out that we lost a significant amount of staff.
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Starting Monday last week, some 9,000 employees of the publicly owned postal service Posti have been on a two-week strike against pay cuts, which has led to mail deliveries being interrupted ahead of the busy Christmas season.
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Tesco, Britain's biggest retailer, has said a no-deal Brexit in October would be far more problematic than preparations it made for the original planned departure date in March because of the approach of the busy Christmas season.
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Sports Direct shares tanked, falling 13 percent after the retailer reported weak results and CEO Mike Ashley said trading in November was "unbelievably bad", highlighting a growing sense of gloom among British high streets in the peak Christmas season.
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"We have entered 2019 with positive momentum," said Chief Executive Officer Simon Longbottom, adding that a new booking system had helped to maximise revenue and gain market share in the Christmas season for a chain that also serves food.
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During the Christmas season, the Trump administration announced one of its most cruel and inhumane policies to date: a plan that would separate parents from their children when they are detained at the U.S. border for possible illegal entry.
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The Christmas season is upon us, and for many who celebrate the holiday, December 25 involves opening presents, enjoying a big meal with family, and possibly recovering from a food coma with a viewing of a classic holiday movie.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads For the past 200 years, the Wanaragua masquerade dance has been performed during the Christmas season by the Garifuna — descendants of African and Indigenous Caribbean people — as a festive symbol of anti-colonial resistance.
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According to one source close to the matter, Premium TV did not renew a contract to air two Disney channels after it expired in July and is cutting spending to a minimum on its advertising campaign for the Christmas season.
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This being the Christmas season, you might think she was referring to the dozens of presents wrapped in holiday paper and stuffed into gift bags that take up a good chunk of space just inside Saint Athanasius School in the Bronx.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A fragment of wood reputed to be from the manger where Jesus was laid after his humble birth went on display in Jerusalem on Friday, ahead of its transfer to Bethlehem for the official launch of the Christmas season.
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Joules, famed for its hand-drawn prints, also saw its shares drop about 20% after it said profits for the year to May would be significantly below market expectations, due largely to a shortage of stock over the Christmas season.
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The holiday season was expected to be a boon for Hallmark and its spinoff network, Hallmark Movies and Mysteries, which produced over 100 movies in 2019 — nearly half of which are related to the Christmas season, according to The New Yorker.
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Topps Tiles' warning comes a day after an industry survey on Monday showed that British retailers saw a stronger-than-expected improvement in sales in November and are more upbeat about the month ahead, which includes the key Christmas season.
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Beauty companies such as AmorePacific and LG Household and Health Care thrive on short product-development cycles in order to keep up with the latest trends, such as stamping Line characters on packaging and plastering gingerbread men on products over the Christmas season.
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The Christmas season — a time of giving and joy, of twinkling lights and family celebrations — is still hard for Alissa Parker, five years after her daughter Emilie, then 6, was killed along with 25 others in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre.
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The DHS plans went into high gear after an incident at London's Gatwick Airport last Christmas season, when reported drone sightings at the airport grounded flights and disrupted the travel plans of hundreds of thousands of people, according to a DHS official.
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In this Christmas season, can we see the face of Jesus in the child at the borders and welcome the family, as did the three kings, in this prosperous country, where we extol the values of love, life and freedom from suffering?
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The comedic actor and his wife Hilaria attended the annual Christmas Tree Lighting at Rockefeller Center on Wednesday night with their 3-year-old daughter along for a very special honor: pressing the button that kicks off the Christmas season in New York City.
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Another popular suggestion is that it arose from the tradition of making charitable donations during the Christmas season, wherein people would give boxes of food and other supplies to the less fortunate and churches would set out donation boxes to collect for the poor.
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"The revolving credit facility has clearly gotten them through the Christmas season, so the important thing is how they've ended Christmas and whether they've still got access to the revolving credit facility and how much cash they have on balance sheet," the second investor said.
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Sales grew at their slowest pace in just over a year, and less than the 3.3 percent annual growth recorded in November in the run-up to what many shops had billed as their best Christmas season since a prolonged downturn began in 2008.
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We found that the Thanksgiving holiday provides a small boost to revenues and the Christmas season a big one, and that aside from that, revenues are highest in late summer (perhaps because school is out and/or tourism is up) and lowest in March.
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He was a master of the gentle touch, treating child presenters on his program's annual Toy Show — a beloved Christmas season ritual in which he demonstrated the latest gifts for children — with the same polite attention that he afforded political leaders and global celebrities.
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Mind you, in 2015 they judged that an ad which read, "It's not Christmas without you, Baileys" didn't break any rules, as the drink is "traditionally associated with the Christmas season," so how stringently these guidelines are applied could well be up for debate.
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Abu Shadi, an aging divorcee living in a Christian Palestinian community in Nazareth, is driving around his neighborhood and its outskirts all day at the beginning of the Christmas season — he's got "Jingle Bells" as his phone's ringtone — hand-delivering invitations to his daughter's wedding.
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" The event in and of itself will be a "seminal" event for the company, Schlossberg said, adding that it must "hit a home run to convince investors that they have something very special that they're going to be rolling out for the Christmas season.
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Next up is 2017's Christmas Inheritance, which opens with what seems to be a perfectly normal version of "We Wish You A Merry Christmas" until you notice that some of the classic lines have been changed to mirror a more chaotic modern Christmas season.
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"This Christmas season I want to honor those who have shaped our country and made it the place we are proud to call home, and I am excited to announce our White House holiday theme, 'The Spirit of America' " she said in a statement.
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PARIS, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Footfall in the Paris region's shopping malls dropped by 12% over the past week year-on-year as the crucial Christmas season was spoiled by transport strikes against the French government's pension reform, the CNCC shopping mall federation said on Thursday.
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Fadi Kattan, a Palestinian chef who owns and operates the boutique Hosh Al-Syrian Guesthouse and its cafe, believes tourism should extend beyond the Christmas season and that changes should be made to entice visitors to stay in Bethlehem during the rest of the year.
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Richard Gottlieb, the founder of Global Toy Group, told Polygon that companies usually reveal toy prototypes at showcases 15 months before a targeted Christmas season, meaning there was a risk that Baby Yoda toys could have leaked well ahead of Disney Plus&apos launch.
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Rob Ridgeway, who manufactures and sells a copyrighted board game on Amazon under Spontuneous Games, told BuzzFeed News that he noticed shady accounts on his product page purporting to sell his game after it became a number one best-selling game during the 2016 Christmas season.
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Everyone refers to the Christmas season as "the most wonderful time of the year," but if you ask us, that designation should go instead to the week leading up to Amazon Prime Day, when sales start cropping up to get shoppers pumped for the big event.
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Francis, marking the fourth Christmas season since his election in 2013, also urged Palestinians and Israelis, facing renewed tension after a U.N. resolution condemning Israeli settlements on occupied land, to have the courage to put aside hate and revenge and "write a new page of history".
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Even in a normal year, US electronics companies "are in a scramble to have their products manufactured and in place" for consumers to buy during peak periods of demand — typically June and the Christmas season, according to Dan Wang, technology analyst at research firm Gavekal Dragonomics.
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BETHLEHEM, West Bank (Reuters) - A fragment of wood reputed to be from the manger where Jesus was laid after his humble birth arrived in Bethlehem as a gift from the Vatican on Saturday, kicking off Christmas season at the town revered as the place of Jesus' birth.
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"This Christmas season I want to honor those who have shaped our country and made it the place we are proud to call home, and I am excited to announce our White House holiday theme, 'The Spirit of America,'" Trump said in a statement announcing the theme.
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The Elf on the Shelf and its interactive hide-and-seek game play has grown into a beloved holiday tradition among families with young children, with the tiny toy showing up in creative spots each morning and serving as Santa Claus' eyes and ears throughout the Christmas season.
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The actors attended a screening of her new film Wonder Wheel at The Soho Hotel in London, England, on Monday, sparking memories of the beloved romantic comedy about two women from opposite sites of the Atlantic Ocean who swap houses over the Christmas season, only to each find love.
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Even as the Christmas season in the United States steadily grows more and more secular, to reflect a country that's much less homogenized in its makeup, it retains the centrality of charity, the need to make sure people who are downtrodden and ignored are treated with kindness and respect.
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In the midst of his competitive sailing career, Hall manages to rebuild his elite athlete's body after each of two separate and unrelated operations for testicular cancer: the first in 1990, when he was 21; the second in the Christmas season of 1992, after which his weight dropped.
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"Why in the world would you, if you were the president of the United States, why would you actively meet with a very narrow slice of the 535 members of Congress to conclude that shutting down the government for any reason is good politics during the Christmas season?" said Wallace.
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I was working in a garden center, sorting out trees for customers over the Christmas season, and I served a really rude dude with a BMW who was snapping his fingers at me and talking on his phone, while demanding that I cut his tree in a very specific way.
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Americans do not want and will not accept a giant and permanent tax holiday for our most profitable corporations, and a huge tax cut for our wealthiest citizens paid for by gigantic deficits, tax increases for millions of citizens and an aggressive attack against America's poor during the Christmas season. Sen.
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I promised to make a version of that case-for-staying-Catholic a few weeks ago, but there isn't much I could say that isn't right there in the Christmas-season bridge between the Old Testament and the New, in the history of the Jewish people that Christians claim as their own.
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Here's their tips: Double-check admission hours for sights and attractions Those visiting popular destinations during the holidays should check whether attractions are really open or have special hours of operation during the Christmas season, according to Rick Steves, the travel writer and television host known for his PBS documentary series Rick Steves' Europe.
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The couple, who have been dating since September 2017 after initially sparking romance rumors in May, recently celebrated their first Christmas season together, with Richie getting into the holiday spirit by dancing around the kitchen to her father Lionel Richie's 1983 classic "All Night Long (All Night)" while dressed in some Santa-themed sleepwear — minus the pants.
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Some of the most classic moments from Harry Potter took place during the Christmas season — in The Sorcerer's Stone, Harry wakes up on Christmas day to find the Invisibility Cloak among his presents (and Ron gets his iconic R sweater); in The Half-Blood Prince, Ron hilariously interrupts Ginny and Harry's flirting with some Christmas pies.
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Icy hearts will be significantly easier to melt this Christmas season in part thanks to Olaf's Frozen Adventure, a new 21-minute featurette starring Frozen snowman Olaf (Josh Gad) on his quest to find an apt holiday tradition for sisters Anna (Kristen Bell) and Elsa (Idina Menzel) in their first merry season together as non-estranged princesses.
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Boots said it is hiring back seasonal workers that it normally uses for the Christmas season, while UK supermarket chain Morrisons (MRWSY) said in a statement that it is recruiting 1,000 additional workers for its distribution centers, and 2,500 people to work as pickers and drivers, as part of a drive to expand home delivery options.
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The season's final two episodes are a long process of reweaving everything that's been frayed, and when the season's coda (which takes place during a Christmas season that seems to exist in the middle of summer) unfurls at a school dance, there's a distinct sense of time having passed, lessons having been learned, and kids growing up.
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And both trends, the personnel and the political, have reached a crescendo this Christmas season, with the sudden pullout from Syria, the equally sudden departure of James Mattis, the president's war with the Federal Reserve amid a tumbling stock market, and now a government shutdown over the Trumpiest sticking point of all, the fabled border wall.
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Similar to "White Christmas," season three's feature-length meditation on crime and punishment, this episode uses a dizzying buffet of clever ideas, homages, and references to paint a wild picture of the future, with the relevant message that the people we're trusting to build us a shining technological paradise could be just as fallible and compromised as the worst of us.
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Leif Mannerstrom, who owns and cooks at this charming former warehouse of the Swedish East India Company, built on the waterfront in 1775, is so widely admired for his knowledge of things piscatorial that he is pictured on a national postage stamp, and more than 10,000 people come from all over Scandinavia each year for his Christmas-season feast of 16 herrings.
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"Micro and small companies have a very important role in the economy and the export of their products in the Christmas season represents an opportunity for them to recover faster from the impact of the hurricane, but also so that they see the foreign market as a necessary long-term strategy for the sustainability of their businesses," said Ricardo Llerandi, executive director of the Puerto Rico Trade and Export Company.
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If we read the piece from right to left, following the direction of the marchers ("Lynch Mob" is one of the installations that curator Shaw has termed Walker's "pageant" works), we witness an upheaval akin to the rites of Saturnalia, the Roman late-December gift-giving celebration (adapted by 4th-century Christians into the Christmas season), in which the world is turned upside-down and slaves become masters and masters become slaves.
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The Christmas season is halfway over with no sign of the gift that was promised for the United States by Kim Jong UnKim Jong UnStrap yourself in: 2020's likely to be quite a ride What to worry about: 6 top risks to watch for in 2020 Foreign policy issues, with enemies and allies, will follow Trump in 2020 MORE, the brutal and cunning young North Korean leader, after a prolonged period of paralysis in talks over his nuclear weapons program.
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On one of those trips, she found Tchaikovsky's "Nutcracker Suite," which, strange as it might seem to anyone who has lived through an American Christmas season, had never been performed in the U.S. Walt Disney was as taken as she was with "Waltz of the Flowers," and it inspired one of the loveliest chapters in "Fantasia," a sequence for which another of Holt's subjects, Sylvia Moberly-Holland, became the story director, the person responsible for conceiving the over-all action and feel of a piece.
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