An invite to dinner, drinks, a movie or shopping will be met with a similar excuse.
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They tend to focus deployment in more densely populated areas, and along major highways and office or shopping districts.
So odd to see this in a store where everyone else was either working or shopping or being loudly busy.
Pasted endlessly onto the screens in trains or shopping malls, news ceases to be the theatre of the real, and becomes muttering walls.
Bloxham: Understand the ebbs and flows of the holiday season, from the lead-up before Thanksgiving to shopping on their own or shopping with the kids.
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The study in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, contradicts the idea that being under pressure leads to bad habits like over-eating or shopping sprees.
Yet unlike office blocks or shopping malls, which sign leases with tenants for ten years or more, hotels have to let their rooms by the night.
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If you are in a mall or shopping center, organize a holiday scavenger hunt with your fellow merchants to promote to your database in your upcoming e-mail.
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Rather, these innovations have taken place at the heart of the product or shopping experience, and, as a result, have transformed that experience into a genuinely useful one.
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Consumers should ask these same questions about other extra products offered with their loan, such as auto or shopping clubs, home or auto security plans, and debt cancellation products.
"It may be easier for criminals to tamper with a machine that is in a non-bank location, such as a grocery store, deli or shopping mall, " the New York state banking department advises.
Some people find that listening to music, hobbies, volunteer work, keeping a daily journal of events and how they feel, laughter, playing with pets, taking short breaks or shopping help them to relax.
This suggests that one element of the solution will be labelling when Google's in-house services -- such as maps, airline flight details or shopping comparison information -- are artificially given a higher billing than rivals.
Patty had been implacably generous in offering to look after Connie while Carol was out working or shopping or doing her Thursday-night business, and Carol had become dependent on her for a ton of free babysitting.
Except in Portland and Minneapolis, each local government is free to make its own decisions about whether to permit the building of a new office block or shopping mall, regardless of any cost the decision imposes on neighbours.
Sure, discretionary spending, or shopping as leisure, will prevent them all disappearing: but in order to pay for themselves malls (and in the UK example, the High Street) need to be getting a good piece of everyday spending.
With their four houses in choice locations, their armies of butlers and the pair of private jets that stood ready to whisk them to the next celebrity party or shopping expedition, they were accepted at their own valuation.
When people are mindful of balancing skill and challenge so that cooking, or shopping, is neither so easy as to be a boring chore nor so hard as to be an anxious-making annoyance pushing the limits of competence and time then enjoyment can be found and increased.
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"People coming here to work in factories don't have the time or the money for shopping or the rollercoaster, " said a migrant worker in his 20s, surnamed Xiao, who works at the mall.
Those looking to save money on their travel said they will skip hotels and stay with family or friends, take a shorter trip, use a more economical mode of transportation or spend less on shopping or sightseeing.
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It's - I think it's meant to be like a public place, a schoolyard or a shopping mall.
In a recent Harris Interactive worldwide poll, residents of various countries were asked whether they liked or disliked shopping for clothes.
It now knows that print ads can sway a car shopper to put a Nissan or Infiniti vehicle on his or her shopping list.
Well before anyone started thinking about Thanksgiving or holiday shopping, Tracey began telling her customers about Small Business Saturday as they checked out.
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Powys council said its proposals supported LGZ recommendations of developing Brecon as a tourist centre, and its role as a boutique or niche shopping location.
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Big ticket items like Ultra HD and even 3D printers hold promise for retailers offering a compelling service component or innovative shopping experience, but not next year.
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As portrayed in countless tourist brochures, upon chocolate boxes and jigsaw puzzles, the sun-kissed landscape feels more "authentic" than the bland suburban housing estate or the shopping precinct.
To get the deal, all the customer has to do is toss it into her or his shopping cart, and the cash register will automatically adjust the price.
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Because it's for select discounted products, many of which will only be available for a set period, tweet-buying is not for people who are searching for a specific product or comparison shopping.
It is all the funnier because Messrs Remunda and Klusak are not driven by any obvious desire to humiliate the advertising industry or the shopping public, even if they end up doing both.
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