"She was also under pressure to ask her husband back to the house for Christmas dinner and all of that was making him more and more maudlin and anxious, " he said.
McIlroy is back home in Northern Ireland for Christmas, reflecting on a successful 2009 and setting out his targets for next year.
On Monday, the first day back to work for many after the Christmas break, the main parties stepped up the pre-election campaign with a row about tax and spending.
In particular, Obama called for Congress to come back after Christmas and work with him on a limited agreement to prevent tax hikes on the middle class, extend unemployment insurance and set a framework for future deficit reduction steps.
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MID-JULY marks the start of peak season for the Californian ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles, as America's retailers stock up for the back-to-school and Christmas shopping seasons.
Even with that early and sizable financial support, actual shipping has been delayed and consumers are left to wonder if their Pebble purchase back in April will ship in time for this Christmas.
The film had been due for release last Christmas but was pushed back by Warner Bros to ensure it "reaches the largest audience possible".
The deal frenzy was over, and only when the deadline of Christmas actually loomed, did consumers come back for one more shopping spree.
Congressional leaders leave Friday for the Christmas holiday, but they can come back Dec. 27 and continue to discuss alternatives.
Michael Ware, 37, accidently got into the arcade cabinet-building business when he designed an emulator-based machine for his wife, 35, as a Christmas present back in December 2002.
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The World Cup is still some way off but I'll need to get back into the one-day squad after Christmas to have a chance for that.
Back in the UK, boomerang mail was a problem for a Norfolk couple at Christmas 2003 when a card was wrongly delivered to their house six times.
The revelations come just one week after Tesco's chief executive Philip Clarke insisted the company was "back on form" in Britain as it reported its strongest growth in UK Christmas sales for three years.
Back-to-school shopping is a key period for retailers, and ranks only second to Christmas for sales.
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On a petition from Italy, India's Supreme Court allowed the marines to return home for Christmas and again in February to vote in Italy's general elections with the proviso they come back to face trial.
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