But here's a thought: Spread the wealth this season by buying gifts that tackle some of America's thorniest money problems.
The virus is then thought to have spread from the second patient to his son and another member of the family.
Most cases are thought to be spread by sneezing, but he said there other factors could be at work in Hong Kong, particularly the clusters of cases at the Hotel Metropole and an apartment complex.
Mrs Skeet discovered on Thursday that her cancer, which was not thought to have spread when the operation was first due to have been done five weeks ago, has now spread to her windpipe and was inoperable.
It is telling that the retailers thought it necessary to spread the jobs fair over three full days.
Its aims is to contribute to spread the thought, ideals and work of Professor Joseph Ki-Zerbo (1922-2006), which are points of reference for the African youth and diaspora, in their commitment for the development of the continent, and quest for shared values.
Crime has spread to places thought of as safe only a couple of years ago.
But, alas, according to the scientists who excavated the remains, the bones belonged to humans, and are actually evidence of tribal skull deformation being more wide-spread than first thought.
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However, until now, it had been thought that 96 hours could be spread over time.
However, it is thought that the reductions will be spread fairly evenly across the DfE's range of activities, but the union also fears that child protection will suffer as the department prioritises its free schools and academies programme.
The Black Death is thought to have originated in China and spread to Europe through trade.
When schoolboys threw stones at several Sainsbury's outlets last month, it was thought that the rumours prompting them had been spread maliciously.
Back then the range of possible outcomes was quite widely spread: in effect, the Bank thought that anything could happen, including something very good.
Producer and director Charlie Minn tells audiences at the end of his thought-provoking documentary 8 Murders A Day to spread the word about the atrocities lodged daily against the people in a coastal town of Mexico.
The infection spread, and after amputating her feet, doctors thought they had the situation under control, according to a blog run by a family friend.
It was once thought that photovoltaic installations might attain a similar size as they spread across America's West (a prospect viewed with alarm by some environmentalists).
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Chelation's spread started in the 1950s, when some doctors thought it might be a way to remove the calcified plaque from the arteries of heart patients.
Governments, you would have thought, would be doing everything in their power to promote the spread of mobile phones.
She thought she had beaten her breast cancer but then later discovered it had spread to her bones.
Despite last year's acquisition of Half.com, its expansion into used cars, and the spread of small merchants on to the site, it is still thought of mostly as a market on which to trade collectables.
New Dehli Metallo-beta-lactamase-1 (NDM-1) is thought to have emerged in India where poor sanitation and antibiotic use have helped resistance spread.
Perhaps, in a time of abundant liquidity, they thought that all the slicing and dicing done by the mortgage industry and its Wall Street allies had spread the risk sufficiently thin that a genuine productivity payoff in finance was at hand and no great upset was in store.
Hedge funds thought they'd been smart by locking in a three-to-four-percentage-point spread by selling protection on those tranches and buying it on less risky ones.
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