Auto industry unions are also striking and public workers have stayed home.
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Now the consumer has wasted time and gas, when he or she could have stayed home and placed a quick order with Amazon.com.
What you feel, watching Close, is not that you are watching gender being bent into new, absorbing shapes but that you might as well have stayed home and leafed through a book on Magritte.
To reach its goal, the campaign is counting on a combination of newly registered African-Americans and aggressive outreach to tens of thousands black voters who are registered to vote but have stayed home in past elections.
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If comparably slow and costly flights were the only travel option available today, I and almost all of my fellow passengers would certainly have stayed home: a gain for the environment, though a loss for the global economy.
In 2003, when The Associated Press first dispatched me to the Tour de France to cover a guy from Texas who was on his way to becoming the race's most successful champion, I never imagined for one moment that a decade later I'd be waiting to hear him say that we all should have stayed home.
Most new, young voters seem to be republican supporters, and many unionists seem to have stayed at home.
"Wrexham people were well aware of the situation here, many may have stayed at home because they didn't want to vote for Labour, " he said.
Given that only 36% of eligible Memphians voted in the previous election, Mr Lawler's most powerful weapon may be an ability to draw voters to the polls who would otherwise have stayed at home.
Paris would still have been liberated if everybody had stayed at home - and in fact many did just that.
The study of friendships in primary school found that socially successful children were more likely to have attended nursery or playgroups than those who stayed at home.
Low-cost airlines and fast international trains mean many diplomats in Europe can commute home for weekends with families and wives who have stayed put rather than jettison careers, mortgages or schools.
Friday's four-hour long Olympic opening ceremony may have kept audiences away from the cineplex, as a record-setting 40.7 million people stayed home to watch actors Daniel Craig and Kenneth Branagh help kickstart the London games.
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