It was charming, occasionally insightful, and tinged with the melancholy of a long day s sunset.
Ms McPhie said research by one major pub chain had found St George's Day was now its busiest single-day celebration, behind St Patrick's Day and Mother's Day.
BBC: NEWS | UK | England | St George's Day grows in strength
National Equal Pay Day represents the date in the current year through which women must work to match what men earned in the previous year, reminding us that we must keep striving for an America where everyone gets an equal day's pay for an equal day's work.
WHITEHOUSE: Presidential Proclamation -- National Equal Pay Day, 2012
Change is the first legislation that I signed into law, the Lilly Ledbetter Act that has a very simple principle -- (applause) -- women should get paid an equal day's pay for an equal day's work, and our daughters should be treated just like our sons when it comes to the workplace. (Applause.) That's what change is.
"I think shoppers' hearts are in the same place for Mother's Day and Father's Day, " Krugman says.
"Preparing for Valentine's Day and Mother's Day is crazy but this has been as close if not more crazy, " said Jones.
Great idea, but let's be honest, how many of you have had fights on Valentine's Day because of Valentine's Day?
This is where you visit Mom on Mother's Day or Dad on Father's Day.
The campaign was started when the pub industry noticed many English people would always go out drinking to celebrate St Patrick's Day, yet did not even know when St George's Day was.
BBC: NEWS | UK | England | St George's Day grows in strength
Landy's firm, which counts Mother's Day as the third biggest gifting holiday after Christmas and Father's Day, aims to create memories that suit all manner of tastes and lifestyles ranging from gourmet food and wine tastings to skydiving.
Both the need and desire to celebrate our matrons make Mother's Day the third-largest spending holiday of the year, behind the winter holidays and Valentine's Day.
That journey started the day he was born on New Year's day 1992, the same day George Graham's "boring, boring" Arsenal were held to a turgid 1-1 draw by Wimbledon and in the same year that England finished bottom of their Euro 92 group and started their fateful 1994 World Cup qualifying campaign.
"Today has been a very tough day for law enforcement officers involved, it's been a very tough day for victims and their families, it's been a very tough day for the suspect's family, " Sisson said before reading a prepared statement at a Friday night news conference.
"I don't really count the days since cancer, because it's like every day's a birthday, " he said.
Since when are hardworking men and women who are putting in a hard day's work every day -- since when are they special interests?
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Like the House, the Senate was to adjourn Friday for a 10-day President's Day recess.
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And on this Valentine's Day there's no love loss between baseball star Roger Clemens and his former personal trainer Brian McNamee.
And then it's on to the day's main event, a motion on the annual Police Grant and Local Government Finance reports.
Unlike Mother's Day--the busiest Sunday on the phone network, when Verizon (nyse: VZ - news - people ) experiences a 10% to 20% spike in call volume--Father's Day is like any other Sunday.
So the currency's 0.4% rise against the dollar on the first day's trading after the announcement was partly reversed the following day.
Only Sri Lanka's slow over-rate stopped him having a stab at Don Bradman's record haul in a day's play, 309.
BBC: Virender Sehwag blitzes Sri Lanka as India pile on runs
It is understood to be the first time in the event's history that a full day's racing has had to be called off.
With Tuesday's bounce from the previous day's big declines, stocks saw a return to the kind of resilience that has impressed investors in recent months.
And after Ronald De Boer blazed a penalty over following Gilles Grimandi's foul on Tottenham's Edgar Davids - the day's pantomime villain, Kanu's deflected shot made it two to Arsenal.
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