The figures used on the maps are not seasonally adjusted, so, for example, people taking on Christmas jobs will be reflected in a drop in the claimant count at the beginning of the year.

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New York and Chicago, for example, are hugely popular at Christmas time, with outsize Christmas trees, glittering holiday lights, and decorated shop windows.

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Many illustrators and artists, for example, preferred using the traditional Christmas colors of red and green, or even brown furs, when drawing jolly, old St.

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There is some currency hedging and when the shops make big advance orders for Christmas products, for example, they will buy the currency to pay for them straight away, even if they do not need to make the payment for several months.

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Mr and Mrs Peace, Mr and Mrs Christmas, Mr and Mrs Gallery, for example, sat down, had a good think and decided to call their respective offspring Warren, Merry, and Art, while Mr and Mrs Beach realised too late that a popular diminutive of Alexander is Sandy.

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For example, online retailers are especially vulnerable during the peak shopping period between Thanksgiving and Christmas and especially on Cyber Monday.

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For example, a person searching the Web for jewelry might request to see ads just around Christmas and Valentine's Day.

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For example, Little League acknowledges there was some upset in its ban being announced five days after Christmas, making a lot of shiny new bats under the tree more valuable for pounding rocks than baseballs.

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