It was Boxing Day, the Canadian equivalent of Black Friday, which falls on the day after Christmas.
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The Monday after the final Sunday of the NFL regular season has been dubbed Black Monday because it is the day the season of head coach firings begin.
In consequence, says Ms Wilkerson, who uses the words coloured, Negro and black in line with the practice of the day, by 1980 half of America's blacks lived outside the southern states.
Markets opened down Monday morning, signaling the anticipation for a bailout package for Ireland and a holiday week in the U.S. that will see the first major holiday shopping day of the year with Black Friday.
Other data, assembled by social intelligence company Consumersphere in Minneapolis, provided a day-by-day report that included Black Friday, the biggest retail day of the year.
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If there is a truism we should by now have come to accept, it is to avoid single point extrapolations, look skeptically at the accepted wisdom of the day, and listen for the whistling wings of the Black Swan.
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The San Francisco startup is closing its web site for the day in protest of Black Friday to make a point about consumerism and focusing on quality over quantity.
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They say that the Red Cliffs, the cliffs that give their name to both the famous battle and the John Woo movie are still charred black to this day because of smoke from the burning fleet.
The International Black Awareness Day will be celebrated on 20 November in the light of this telling reflection, as a national level achievement against racial discrimination by the Unified Black Movement.
While Hollywood is finally starting to pay tribute to the black cowboys of yesteryear, their memory is also being honoured by the 200 members of the North Eastern Trail Riders Association, modern-day black cowboys and cowgirls.
Unfortunately, their plans for Black Friday, the biggest shopping day of the year, run directly counter to it.
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Last year, the New Jersey warehouse fulfilled 85% of its Black Friday orders on Friday and finished the rest the following day.
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But if the extraordinary events of the past day demonstrate anything, it is that investment banks are black boxes, and what really matters is not what sits in them but what their counterparties fear may be lurking inside.
Though most simply remember the 1987 Crash as one panicked selling day, Black Monday was just the largest drop in a string of bad days.
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We deliver freshly baked bread every morning to our cafes, and at the end of the day the bread that goes unsold is taken out the back door in black plastic bags and is delivered to food pantries and soup kitchens.
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Nacho Figueras, the Argentinian polo icon and face of the Ralph Lauren Black collection, will join you and a guest for lunch and a day at the U.S. Open at the International Polo Club if you are the highest bidder at the Ralph Lauren Pink Pony Auction.
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Spin-bowler Vettori, 28, had already been named as skipper of the one-day and Twenty20 sides but will now take charge of the Test team when the Black Caps begin their tour of South Africa in October.
U.S. retailers are preparing for a weekend of carefully planned promotions and unique merchandise to bring consumers into stores on Black Friday, the shopping day after Thanksgiving, when stores will implement their most ambitious discounting and marketing plans of the year.
Black Friday has long been the busiest holiday shopping day of the year.
For most online retailers, the bigger spending day of the season to date was way back on Nov. 22, three days before Black Friday.
Calvin Sims, who is black and a reporter for the Times interviews prominent people of the day.
By some estimates, "Black Ops" had the biggest five-day opening in revenue of any entertainment debut in history.
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"He's thoughtful, he's articulate, he's handsome, he doesn't fit any of the stereotypes of the dangerous dark-skinned black male that people see every day on television, " Mr Westen said.
Black Friday, the day following Thanksgiving, has traditionally been the start of the holiday shopping season.
Moscow (CNN) -- French-born actor Gerard Depardieu arrived in the Black Sea resort of Sochi Saturday, according to Russian state media, a day after he announced that he had accepted Russian citizenship.
Today could be the day our life as we know it disappears into a black hole of grief.
The Black Caps dismissed the tourists for 154 runs before tea on the first day of the first Test in Christchurch.
Much earlier in the day hundreds of coaches, cars and vans decked out in black-and-white flags and scarves travelled to London.
Activision Publishing just announced the first-day sales of its newest hit videogame Call of Duty: Black Ops, saying that it is the biggest entertainment launch in history.
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