Yet the day before the holiday, the streets around Kuala Lumpur's Chow Kit market were strangely quiet.
Just before the holiday season, Merck announced that it was halting a major clinical trial with its cardiovascular (CV) disease drug, Tredaptive.
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He doubled his order ahead of the New Year so that his toys were on the water and headed to Florida before the holiday even started.
Friday's release of the Concord came just before the holiday, when potential buyers who work in service industries would have received Christmas tips, Mr. Hicks said.
Every day that passes without highlighting the 720p trailers on the Xbox site is a lost day of marketing two ultra-hot technologies right before the holiday season.
Blue Mountain Arts, a folksy Colorado upstart that pioneered the on-line greeting card craze, drew 11 million viewers in October, even before the holiday season got under way.
Blue Mountain Arts, a folksy Colorado upstart that pioneered the on-line greeting card craze, drew 11 million viewers in October, making it the 10th-most-frequented site on the Web, even before the holiday season got under way.
Now, Mr. Foreman places his Easter orders in August, which protects him from dealing with delays related to the New Year because the orders get filled and shipped before the holiday break, but it also has its downside.
Indeed, the announcement also says that the DGA will engage in informal discussions with the AMPTP before mid-November, which will prepare the DGA to do a deal promptly before the holiday season sucks the wind out of the town.
While the decline in cotton prices has certainly helped Aeropostale to improve its margins this quarter, we believe some key initiatives by the company such as rolling out global shipments before the holiday season have also positively impacted the margins.
"Some amendments have been made since the original draft was presented before the Christmas holiday, but concerns remain that the essence of the law has not changed, " said the BBC's Eastern Europe reporter Nick Thorpe.
After mass on Maundy Thursday before the Christian holiday of Easter, each of six villages on the Dalmatian island of Hvar in southern Croatia sends out a group that will proceed through the other villages in a circle, covering twenty-five kilometres in eight hours before returning home.
Consumer sentiment in the overall economy may see some improvement, as the sharply lower crude-oil prices may translate to lower gas prices before the Memorial holiday.
B. and congressional staffs, just before the Thanksgiving holiday.
Another round of private negotiations could produce yet another language change if that's what it takes to get Reid the 60 votes he needs to get the bill passed before the Christmas holiday.
The bill is expected to be unveiled within days and it could proceed to a vote before the Memorial Day holiday weekend at the end of May.
Today in Tokyo, the last trading day before the Golden Week holiday, market participants chose to take money off the table.
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This is a great time of year to do this before the season of holiday giving is upon us.
On a busy Friday before the Labor Day holiday, 25 customers were ensnared in a motionless line in a Wells Fargo branch in Santa Monica, California.
The only question is whether that tax will be imposed before or after the current holiday season.
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The county is trying to finish hand recounting before the nation's Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday, but the process was slowed Saturday by hundreds of questions about individual ballots and Republican allegations of irregularities.
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Before the end-of-Ramadan holiday, the Indonesian government cut train fares for those making the annual trip to their home village.
We launched the new app exactly one month before the upcoming Fourth of July holiday, when American families will be taking to the road as they have always done, heading to family gatherings, the beach, parks, vacation homes and other diversions.
Buying at the high, especially before a key earnings report for the holiday quarter, seems like a dicey proposition.
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And I'm looking forward to working with members of both parties in the coming days to see to it that we get this done before everyone leaves town for the holiday season.
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The group moved on to a field in Beausale, near Kenilworth, just before the May Day Bank Holiday.
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The 13 families moved on to a field in Beausale, near Kenilworth, just before the May Day Bank Holiday last year.
The team will work throughout the Bank Holiday weekend to finalise the kit before the next critical step, working in collaboration with the Molecular Diagnostic Centre in Alicante, Spain, to get it clinically validated.
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