After queuing for two hours for them to meet Father Christmas a member of staff dressed as an elf informed them that all the best presents had gone.
Of course, not even Saint Nick can deliver all of the presents this year, so we've paid a visit to UPS's massive 5.2 million square foot Worldport shipping facility in Louisville, Kentucky to get a behind the scenes look at its late night operations.
Election.com tabulates all the votes and presents them to the convention manager, who displays the results on the jumbo television screen above the speaker's podium the convention web site, Dems2000.org.
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All this presents the Fed with some serious policy dilemmas.
If a good inspiration does emerge that requires a complex explanation, it will never see the light of day for all the reasons Gabler presents: not enough space for depth, not enough patience for digestion, and too much noise.
But that's a perfect demonstration of the kind of unhappy choices that the sequester presents, to the extent that it presents choices at all.
After signing up, a dashboard presents all the latest deals relevant to your personal experience.
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Often the holiday season, with all of the shopping and talk about presents, gets us to thinking about what we want most.
"The car presents an all-new opportunity for developers, especially the millennial market, and we're looking forward to seeing what results, " said Thai-Tang.
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There is in all the discussions so far a broad recognition that Europe presents the greatest challenge.
The Nikkei article presents the astonishing statistic that for all listed companies reporting on March 31, 2011, 80 percent of operating profits had been earned abroad.
Yes, the aforementioned list of 2010 All Pros arguably presents more individually valuable assets than any other team in the NFL. But as corny as it sounds, the team is not as successful if the intangibles are not there.
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The truth is, doing business outside the law presents all kinds of added costs.
Cash-rich drugs firms, such as Eli Lilly, Roche, Merck and Bristol-Myers Squibb, have all said that the financial turmoil presents an opportunity for them to buy biotechnology companies at knock-down prices.
Also in our opinion, the related financial statement schedule, when considered in relation to the basic financial statements taken as a whole, presents fairly, in all material respects the information set forth therein.
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Listening to all of the evidence that Professor Siegel presents, it would not be surprising if equities are indeed up 20 percent this year.
The cluster of cases in this family presents a list of mysteries: Why were all the sick and dead men?
It was Steve Jobs who accepted the challenge that Morpheus presents to Neo, and by extension all of us, in the movie The Matrix.
He pointed out that the system presents a hazard to secured lenders, since the tax deed obliterates all existing liens and the rules about providing notice to secured lenders are a little sketchy.
After all, the book makes extremely broad generalizations and presents them as applying universally.
Of all the new regulations being implemented for 2009, the Kinetic Energy Recovery System (Kers) presents constructors with the biggest test.
Beethoven establishes the key, presents a main theme and even offers a development section all within the first seven seconds.
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Thanks to the merry doings of the director, Joss Whedon, all your favorite characters are here, as shiny and as tempting as presents under the tree.
The table below presents the teams with the ten highest likelihoods of winning the MLS Cup in all nine prior seasons that used some variation of the current format (this is a sorted view of this complete table in my last post on this topic).
Growing up in the middle of it all, surrounded by military bases and military personnel, I know that being in the service presents some special challenges.
Someone said to me, or maybe I read it, that the problem of Chernobyl presents itself first of all as a problem of self-understanding.
The Mustang has no weaknesses but, like all aircraft, presents tradeoffs.
It all presents significant a challenge for Daimler to keep up the pace of production, management and governmental compliance in a country whose automotive market development depends largely at the will of federal mandate.
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Copying all those pages presents many difficulties, but writing software to make the books useful to searchers is even harder.
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