Donations can be in cash, securities and goods (known as gift-in-kind), and they can be bequests from estates.
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Some of the customs, such as gift-giving, may have influenced Christmas traditions.
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Generally, it takes a substantial amount of these points to earn cash or cash equivalents, such as gift cards.
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The company usually thrives as gift-givers stock up on its popular devices, and this year it has the iPhone 5 and iPad Mini on its shelves.
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Collectively, these businesses design, produce and sell greeting cards and other related products, such as gift bags and party supplies, through numerous distribution channels, including mass merchandisers, drug store chains, discount retailers, card and gift retailers, and supermarkets.
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Gift cards are a big industry, which is why a number of other start-ups such as gift card marketplaces Cardpool and Plastic Jungle, and Gifi, which has a somewhat similar concept to GiftRocket, have focused on this area.
All at once, you appreciate being alive and whole as the gift that it is, as a fragile and wonderful state of affairs.
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Garibaldi then offered the territory as a gift to the now enlarged Piedmont, which, as much to avoid the spread of republicanism as for any other reason, sent its armies south to meet him.
People can choose a gift such as a Starbucks gift card, a Gund teddy bear or chocolate, and select a friend to send it to, and add a card.
You can also give a Quarterly subscription as a gift, tons of fun (and easy).
Once when I was a little boy I received as a gift a toy cement mixer.
He has admitted sending her money, but insists the funds were meant as a gift.
Not so long ago, offering cash as a gift was a social faux pas.
White told the Lexington Herald-Leader the boy received the .22-caliber rifle as a gift.
The customization job was presented to Tom Cruise as a gift from David Miscavige, he said.
The delivery service said that fans had sent him, as a gift, a top-pedigree dog.
They only have to pay just as the gift is about to be shipped.
Before they met, Ms. Demeulemeester sent Ms. Smith a beautifully wrapped white shirt as a gift.
More often, India seems to regard FDI as the gift of Western multinationals alone.
Two years earlier, Keith had received his first guitar as a gift from his mother.
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Three bottles of whiskey, which were intended as a gift for a neighbour, were also taken.
After Roosevelt left, Churchill painted the same scene and later presented it to him as a gift.
Is the balance to be subtracted from his share of the estate or forgiven as a gift?
Nor did he have anything with him that might serve as a gift on such an occasion.
The decision was taken to donate the bells as a gift for Chile's bicentenary celebrations in 2010.
And we've seen people losing their lives, giving their lives actually as a gift for all of us.
You can give the money to someone (including the child) as a gift and have that person contribute.
Some argue that the most important advantage of a 529 Plan is its use as a gift-tax vehicle.
Before my own obituary becomes a permanent document, I take this commencement opportunity as a gift from you.
The original clock was installed in Leicester Square's Swiss Centre in 1985 as a gift from Switzerland Tourism.
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