Investors probably weren't comforted by the great news being buried in the Christmas holiday.
Penney, sales under Johnson fell out of bed, tumbling 32% in the Christmas quarter of 2012 alone.
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"I knew Zooey's music from Elf, " recalls Ward, referring to the songs her shop-clerk character sang in the Christmas comedy starring Will Ferrell.
It's been widely reported that the father of the suspect in the Christmas incident warned U.S. officials in Africa about his son's extremist views.
It ended a difficult year with the relief that it only dropped 0.1% of market share in the Christmas grocery market, according to Kantar.
"We don't expect the incident will have any immediate impact on our business in the Christmas season, since the television program and game are different, " the spokesman said.
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She did a good impression of having her old confidence, standing by the tree laughing, a glass of champagne in her hand, her hair golden in the Christmas lights.
And we had information that this group was working with an individual who was known -- who we now know was in fact the individual involved in the Christmas attack.
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We soon became involved in the Christmas celebrations when Salvation Army leader Captain Eric Buchanan - having learnt about my former aid work on a council estate in Bath - drew me into the first of many Sally Christmases.
This article, published in the Christmas 2012 issue of the British Medical Journal, reviewed industry reports and medical studies to help guide physicians who may have to answer questions and fill out fitness to fly certificates for the growing ranks of aspiring space travelers.
But the target's still to be in the Christmas market and to be in for Chinese New Year, and we're going to launch the device with enough time to be able to build the logistics and get the demand, and be able to sell the devices.
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Even the wave of sympathy that brought eager shoppers in from north and south of the border in the first Christmas after the blast has not been repeated in subsequent years - partly due to a rash of bomb hoaxes.
Perhaps more important, it is still too early to tell how retailers fared in the run-up to Christmas and in the post-Christmas sales, their busiest times of the year.
Many of us are lucky enough to recall with pleasure the Christmases of our childhood: the gifts left by the chimney for Father Christmas, carols sung in biting cold weather, nativity plays, the warm glow we felt as Mother carried in the flaming Christmas pudding decorated with holly.
Arriving in the 1997 Christmas special, Thornton was brought in to play Truly of The Yard, a retired Metropolitan Police Officer, replacing original actor Brian Wilde when was struck down by shingles.
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No, really: The first act begins and ends in a Manhattan apartment on Christmas Day in 1980, and the second opens in the same place on Christmas Day in 2000.
As the student body filed in for the Christmas assembly, I started jumping rope with a holiday garland.
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Despite the downturn in the eurozone, forward bookings for the Christmas period were in line with the previous year - with about 45% of seats now booked.
Few very deep discounts were to be had in the run up to Christmas and in the 48 hours since, sales are at moderate levels.
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The most memorable was in 1995 when they turned on the Christmas lights in Belfast just a year after the first IRA ceasefire.
On the other side of the pond in Munich, travelers and locals alike look forward to the traditional crafts and hot spiced wine in the Marienplatz Christmas market.
The Wii U goes on sale in the US on 18 November and in Europe 12 days later, giving its maker an advantage in the busy Christmas shopping period.
The firm blamed "fragile consumer confidence" in the run up to Christmas for the fall in UK sales.
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Last Xmas runs from 15-17, 22 and 24 December at 8pm with an after-show Christmas party in the bar on Christmas Eve.
Whether you visit in the winter for Christmas markets glittering under snowflakes, or in the spring when the flowers in the city's many parks are in bloom, the city is sure to charm.
Summer is still fresh in the memory, and yet Christmas shopping in the US and the UK is already under way.
The man who at Christmas in 1996 was responsible for the British army was at Christmas in 1997 spotted buying tin soldiers for his collector brother.
Obama will get an update from Mueller on the FBI's investigation and receive information from Holder on the prosecution of the suspect in the botched Christmas Day airline bombing.
The documentary by state broadcaster ARD showed the conditions of employees at the warehouse in Bad Hersfeld, in the state of Hesse, brought in to help with the Christmas rush.
There were also disputes in the Lords before Christmas over his handling of a change in business which avoided a vote in the Lords on plans to change parliamentary boundaries - a vote which the Conservatives were thought likely to lose.
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