So I'm afraid, as I head off for my holidays, I'm going to indulge in a little optimism.
"Anyone who thinks I used to spend my holidays reading political tracts should have come with me for a week, " he said.
There are other anecdotal stories around worth keeping an eye on: Swiss watch manufacturers report a 50% increase in sales of gold watches to Greece, Portugal and Spain in May, to 42m euros worth in a single month. (Thank god it's not gold medallions I am thinking because while I love the 1970s funkadelic look I don't want to see it on my holidays).
Senator JOHN McCAIN (Republican, Arizona): It was said I would decide early next year, and I'll sit down over the holidays with my family and make that decision.
This is my second time here at Fisher House right around the Easter holidays, but it's not my second time, period.
For the last few years, my sister and I have approached the holidays this way: I bought gift cards for her kids, and she bought gift cards for my kids.
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I'll still see you at my parents' place over the holidays, OK?
On special holidays, I would visit my parents with my journalist husband and children.
When my family comes to visit over the holidays, they like to sit around drinking from flutes all day.
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"I've been able to resume my job as a teacher, I have climbed Slieve Donard, I have been on walking holidays, which I love doing, and I've met my nieces and nephews who have been born since the transplant and so it has been fantastic, " she said.
Many of my clients dread visiting relatives during the winter holidays where the weather feels cold both inside and out.
Looking back at my last partnership, I realize that the holidays were kind of a disaster for us on a personal level.
Catherine Jewell, the Austin, Tx. job coach who was my source on a story about using the holidays to find a job, says the first business day of the New Year is not the best time to pounce.
Which is why my family usually escapes to Scotland, where the Holidays are less a retail moment and more of a thanksgiving.
Over the holidays I spent some time testing out my theory.
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Around the holidays, I find it particularly convenient because my time is even more crunched.
My son's school broke up for the school holidays 3 weeks ago, but none of the pupils had received their results.
As we look forward to the beginning of the Jewish High Holidays Sunday night, I want to extend my warmest wishes to all those celebrating the New Year.
We are a family of nine, my wife, myself and seven kids, which makes the holidays very complex.
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Once we spent the holidays high up in the Swiss Alps, where my body stiffened at the sight of deep hollow chasms emptied out of the rocky earth.
The notion that working long hours and not taking holidays makes for a more productive workforce is, in my view, a managerial myth, with no foundation in organizational or psychological science.
When I was growing up, my mother baked delicious, wonderful cookies of all shapes and sizes during the holidays.
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Last week, my Chief of Staff, Bill Daley, informed me that after spending time reflecting with his family over the holidays, he decided it was time to leave Washington and return to our beloved hometown of Chicago.
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"My salary is already down by 300 euros a month, and we get nothing at Christmas, Easter or for holidays, " she says.
My family continues my mother's tradition at Christmas, when we open our home to relatives, neighbors, my six children and even their friends -- extending our family to include those unable to head home for the holidays.
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