The dollar amount the NRF predicts will be spent on the holiday is about the same as last year, suggesting flat consumer activity due to the struggling economy.
He called The Sea, about a man who confronts his past in a town where he spent a childhood holiday, "a masterly study of grief, memory and love recollected".
According to the National Retail Federation, the average amount spent by a holiday shopper over the weekend was only up 6%, reflecting precisely the reported increase in total spend found in our survey.
Although money spent on hotel rooms generates a significant amount of economic impact, fans who attended the 2011 Holiday Bowl spent more on food, beverages and entertainment last year.
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One Korean-Chinese spent the May Day holiday visiting a relative, an official in Pyongyang.
The winter vacation rental that President Obama and his family have spent the last three holiday seasons occupying could be yours for a weekend, a week, even a month if you have the cash to throw down.
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Curry spent her cash on a holiday, a party dress for her daughter and general living costs.
For most families, the majority of the holiday budget is spent on gifts.
All this suggests that General Pinochet, who spent the week at his holiday home by the sea, remains above the law in Chile, and is unlikely to be tried.
And that means stress for people already on weight loss programs and opportunity for companies like Weight Watchers (WTW) seeking a share of the money spent by guilt-ridden holiday over-eaters the morning after their New Years Eve binges.
Having ended up 1, 300 miles away from her intended holiday destination, she spent a night in Miami airport as she desperately tried to get to the right part of Central America.
He spent the summer of 2003 at his holiday home in Maine, poring over technical studies describing the state of Saudi Arabia's oilfields.
Beckham spent the week with his family on holiday at the French skiing resort of Courchevel, but he returned to action on Sunday in Real Madrid's 3-0 home defeat by Osasuna.
The early part of my career was spent in retail, which is tough on the holiday spirit.
Holiday shopping was not complete until you spent Black Friday at Best Buy followed by several more trips meeting with the Geeks and the Dream Team.
Before the bladder infection, which he initially contracted during events marking the queen's diamond jubilee, he spent four nights in a hospital over the Christmas holiday last year for treatment of a blocked coronary artery.
Comedian Les Dennis enjoyed a break at Haven's Hafan y Mor site - the former Butlin's holiday camp at Pwllheli - where he spent many of his childhood holidays and won a talent competition at the age of 14.
The inquest heard that he had spent Christmas with his family in Devon before going on holiday in Switzerland.
Americans spent more online in November to the start of the holiday season and began to replace cars and rebuild in the Northeast after Superstorm Sandy.
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The MP has suggested that other MPs have spent a longer time away from the UK, either on holiday or unofficial business.
But while the company benefitted from holiday sales in the fourth quarter, Netflix has spent much of the first quarter acquiring new content and exploring new revenue streams.
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And she defended her decision to go on the show, suggesting that other MPs have spent a longer time away from the UK, either on holiday or unofficial business.
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Ethical travellers can also sleep easy knowing that their holiday choice is a responsible one, since the money spent on room and board directly benefits the local community.
Several years ago, noticing uneaten fruit piling up in our office as holiday gifts from vendors, I wondered how much we spent for cards, fruit, nuts and candy for customers.
But instead of battling for the economic measures, he has spent much of his time recently playing tennis, before disappearing last week for a holiday in Argentina's lake district.
From the few agonizingly short minutes we've spent with it, we're confident in saying it will be the hit of the holiday season among the gadget-crazy.
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