As the night became a place for legitimate activity and as that activity increased, the length of time people could dedicate to rest dwindled.
Cyber Monday is a marketing term created in 2005 by online retailers after learning that online shopping activity increased the Monday following Black Friday.
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The NICEI results covering the period July - September 2012 estimate that NI economic activity increased by 0.7% over the quarter to 96.5% in Q3 2012 - but is still close to the minimum level reached in Q2 2012.
Proponents note that the overall cost of the project would be recouped within a few decades, as the volume of tunnel freight transport activity increased, reaching an estimated 3 percent of the world's total physical cargo or 100 million tons annually.
The five districts reporting on transportation noted increased activity, while tourism activity also increased across the districts, yet the Atlanta District noted concerns about decreased leisure travel to the Gulf Coast.
Indirect spending reflects increased business-to-business activity that stems from increased visitor activity (e.g. if local hotels outsource their laundering and catering services, then those ancillary businesses see money dollars when the hotels get busier).
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The building activity reflected increased work on structures with two or more units.
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More directly, there is a well-established valuation concept that present value of an activity is increased by anticipated future benefits.
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This activity has increased over the past couple years, and may be a clue to how Gamestop will do going forward.
Manufacturing activity has increased 32 percent so far in 2011, outpacing that of a year ago and driving the profits of industrial firms to rise 28 percent on a year-over-year basis, data from CLSA says.
Rather as in the economic sphere competing private companies tend to produce wealth and activity, whereas monopoly firms have the opposite effect, so in the religious sphere competing sects generate a ferment of activity and increased levels of belief, whereas state churches produce indifference.
And if you look at history and you look at hurricane activity, there are periods of increased and decreased activity that occurs over decades.
The increased activity in the so-called secondary market reflects the rapidly changing landscape of private equity.
Manta CEO Pamela Springer said the increased activity is apparent in her own business.
That is mainly because of increased activity in Russia and the United States, specifically North Dakota.
Instead, there was increased activity in the next-door part of the brain that deals with inanimate, or non-face objects.
At the same time, a pickup in personal consumption does feed business sentiment and could lead to increased activity.
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It then deteriorated due to bad weather, increased activity and high levels of demand, which were above average during January.
Registered investment advisors (RIAs) are also seeing increased activity as many of the big brokerage firms lose their advisors to this channel.
Do you see increased activity -- looking historically -- to hurricanes today?
In the last couple of lines of the press release, Halliburton announced it expects increased activity in its Manifa project in Saudi Arabia.
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She also said the police's stop-and-search powers would be curbed and the effort to deport foreign nationals involved in terrorist activity would be increased.
The team, led by professor of psychiatry J Christian Gillin, was surprised at the increased activity in direct correlation to the person's sense of sleepiness.
Manufacturing employment grew last month for the first time in three years, led by increased activity in the production of cars and trucks and auto parts.
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"It is no surprise to me these big games have fallen this week at the Masters considering the increased activity in the lesser known events, " he said.
In fact what happened was increased activity in three areas of the frontal and parietal cortex, some of which are better known for their involvement in rational thought.
The scientists found that, even while healthy, those with a family history of depression had increased activity in the part of the brain that regulates mood, called the insula.
All participants showed increased activity in the frontal lobes of the brain when the information given was better than expected, indicating active processing of the information to recalculate an estimate.
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