Leap Day proposals are said to have originated when St.
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Spanning the weekends before and after Feb. 29, the celebration will include an ice hockey game, wine tasting, craft show, concert and carnival, and a parade, party and reception on leap day.
Given that this is a Leap Day, and if we were to go by Irish tradition, today gives women the power to ask their beaus, boyfriends and significant others for their hand in marriage.
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There's nothing like a bleak outlook and stunning losses from a variety of finance firms to put a damper on leap-day festivities.
His mother Mary Ann, 79 years old, a leap-day baby who will celebrate her 20th birthday next Wednesday, suggested the idea in 1988.
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The town calls itself the "Leap Year Capital of the World" and expects 100 or more people with Feb. 29 birthdays to attend its quadrennial Leap Year Day celebration, says Jerry Brown, a pastor and store manager there.
In 1996, computers at a New Zealand aluminum-smelting plant failed to process the 366th day in leap year.
While most years are 52 weeks long plus one day, leap years have 52 weeks and two extra days.
Airlines have posted an average 6.3% increase in the number of February passengers during leap year because of the extra day, based on the past eight years' data from the federal Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
If the employee doesn't leap into action within a 60-day window and deposit that money into a new plan or IRA, the Internal Revenue Service will assess early-withdrawal penalties.
They included distress tolerance techniques like plunging her head into ice water, devising ways to distract herself when bad thoughts arose and learning not to leap to the conclusion that one bad day implies a life of misery.
McDonald's reported lighter sales and slightly lower operating income from a year ago, citing tougher comparisons in part driven by an extra day in 2012 due to a leap year.
Sometimes, the raw index might leap from one plateau to another in only a day or two, but those disasters tend to be averted.
The investment banks and hedge funds that account for a big chunk of the day's trading volume use complex strategies that leap across national borders and asset types.
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"In the quarter, spend growth continued to be healthy, and was relatively consistent with the past several quarters, despite the negative impact of having an extra billing day in the first quarter of 2012 because of leap year, " Dan Henry, American Express' chief financial officer, said during a conference call with analysts.
In 1962, the Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini, whose first films were latter-day variants on neo-realism, took a flying leap into hectic modernity with this short, apocalyptic screed against the habits of professional filmmaking and the un-Christian coldness of contemporary Christendom.
This must not be a leap in the dark, but a decision made in the light of day.
"People need to make the mental leap from considering online accounts as just the main activities that they do all day online to actually real digital assets, " he said.
This improvement was despite there being one less trading day in the period compared with last year, which was a leap year, and Easter falling outside the quarter this year, the company said.
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