Once when I was a little boy I received as a gift a toy cement mixer.

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The latest psychological research indicates that the amount of thought you put into a gift has very little impact on how much the recipient likes the gift, let alone how much they bond with you.

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The big push, he expects, will come during the Christmas season, thanks to all those people with a long gift list and so little time.

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Dasgupta is a strange writer: uneven, a little formulaic, but also graced with an ironic eye and a gift for sentences of lancing power and beauty.

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Burma Shave signs pass the time on the way to Seligman, a funny little town that greets travellers with retro motels, loads of gift shops, a road-kill cafe and a squirt of fake mustard.

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This clunky botch is evidence that, though improvisational skills can be learned, being funny is a gift, one that is little in evidence here.

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Then, when Babson asked him for a bigger gift a few years ago, DeMello, still with little cash, had an idea.

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There is no little irony in Thomas Fingar's parting gift to the nation, a just-released National Intelligence Estimate entitled Global Trends 2025.

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This holiday season, however, may prove to be a little different, as there is less money to spend and fewer co-workers on gift lists.

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Leave an IRAto charity at your death, and the gift can cost as little as 25 cents on the dollar --without a complicated trust.

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