And although other holidays, like Chanukah and Kwanza, fall around this time of year, Christmas is the heavy hitter when it comes to spending.
"Construction starts may have been up last year, but I expect that to fall around 10% this year because of the central government's lowered target for public-housing starts and diminished investment from private-property developers, " said Johnson Hu, a CIMB-GK Securities analyst.
There has been a fall of around half a million members in the last four years.
Analysts had suggested the entire sector was suffering a sales fall of around 10%.
The US portion of the world economy is expected to fall from around 25% to 22% in 2015.
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But even as you carry out your grim tasks, you still see the city fall apart around you.
If only one parent has it, your odds fall to around 10 percent.
Public sector employment is also forecast to fall by around 710, 000 up to 2016 - up from forecasts of 400, 000.
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This contributed to huge and ongoing drops in Greek output: GDP is set to fall by around 5% this year.
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Indeed, if the base rate were held unchanged at 5.75%, inflation would fall to around 1.75% in two years' time.
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Its workforce is shrinking: incredibly, the working age population is likely to fall by around a third between now and 2050.
Its GDP is likely to fall by around 1%, making it one of the most resilient economies of the OECD's 30 members.
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If this is sustained, the conventional 30-year mortgage rate should fall to around 5%, says Nicholas Strand of Barclays Capital, from over 6.5% in early November.
The Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, says the British economy is in far better shape than Greece's, where a financial crisis has caused stocks markets to fall sharply around the world.
The Nikkei 225 price-to-earnings ratio now stands at about 18.7 times, higher than about 16 times in the U.S. and 12 times in Europe, but analysts say that ratio will fall to around 16 times if earnings figures come in line with forecasts.
With prices continuing to fall (by around 2% over the past year) the yen value of Japan's output did not grow at all.
White House Chief Technology Officer Todd Park has, for example, been on a roadshow of sorts all fall, going around the country with Steve Case and a band of chief executives, technologists, and opinion leaders sharing sketches for new ways of leading, yet also, more important, listening.
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Boeing deliveries will fall this year to around 280, down from 527 in 2001.
It says the steps now fall into the area around the coastal paths which are Natural England's responsibility.
It was around the fall of 2011 when I had been thinking about pulling together a video of great software engineers.
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And, just to stave off boredom, and to attract some practical (paying ) participation, I suspect, one of the organizations he works with runs the Financial Centre Futures which tracks the relative rise and fall of financial centers around the world, which I wrote about a few months ago at Forbes.com.
Marc Jacobs did a complete turn around from his fall 2012 collection for spring 2013.
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If we see the same fall-off this time around, the youth demo will likely lose the kingmaker status it held in 2008.
Jeff Clarke, chief executive and president of global travel firm Travelport, called the rate cut a "quite decisive move", which "clearly has stemmed the fall" on stock markets around the world.
The number of troops in Wales and Northern Ireland will fall by 400, with around 120 soldiers based in Northern Ireland set to lose their jobs during the next 18 months.
Time off: Planning to sail around the world this fall on his yacht, Sayonara.
Throughout, levels of different hormones rise and fall - and body temperature rises around ovulation.
It has been estimated that around 10m women workers fall into this category, a third of the workforce.
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