Concerned parents still need to find something to put under the tree amid the lead fears.
Bahamonde also suggests heavily promoting boxed gifts that are ready to be put under the tree.
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Kids are finding active video games under the tree alongside step counters and organic cookbooks for Mom or Dad.
When I was a kid, I wanted Santa Claus to leave me a puppy under the tree every year.
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Indeed, but for Father Christmas, no presents would appear beside shoes (not inside stockings) set out under the tree.
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By contrast, there will be fewer consumer electronics presents under the tree this year: Sales will slip 2.8 percent from the year-ago period, IBM predicts.
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Thanks to the merry doings of the director, Joss Whedon, all your favorite characters are here, as shiny and as tempting as presents under the tree.
For example, Little League acknowledges there was some upset in its ban being announced five days after Christmas, making a lot of shiny new bats under the tree more valuable for pounding rocks than baseballs.
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But if iPod's sales ultimately disappoint, it's because Apple's industry-leading marketing expertise makes every product launch like Christmas morning, but the presents under the tree never quite measure up to the ones in your imagination.
The whole report isn't available to the public, but why not use the time you would've spent reading it inspecting what's under the tree, and hoping you'll be responsible for upping those tablet stats in next year's report.
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That spanking new table saw or nail gun under the Christmas tree may deliver quite the thrill to the handyman in your house.
If you want to understand what is happening there, imagine: Under the Liberty Tree that stood in Boston Common, early in the first American Revolution, any and all could come to air their grievances and hammer out solutions collectively, and it was there the promise of American democracy first took root.
"My family hasn't sat under the same oak tree for the last 500 years, " he said.
He was already passionate about history, often reading history books under the magnolia tree in front of Columbia's public library.
The attack, which came as the teenagers huddled under a tree in the rain, was intended in retaliation for a July attack against Mr Williams, who declined to prosecute a suspect in that shooting, Mr McCarthy said.
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Three members of another family were also injured in the incident, including a 7-year-old girl who was trapped under water by the tree, Jordan said.
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Cheerful, hopeful music drifts out across the potholed street, past the soldiers lounging under a tree, and out over the clear blue waters of Lake Kivu.
This posh dining experience can be enjoyed anywhere throughout the pristinely private island you have been strutting through-next to the pool, under a palm tree, in the sand or your guest room.
It is best done at meal time in the evening at a well-lighted table in a quiet corner, or under a tree in the morning.
In the predawn hours before the attack, he called his police handler, met him near the Temple Under a Big Tree, and told him about the murder plot and about Siu.
The old watchman sat under this tree, and Nawab and the other younger men would sit with him at dusk, teasing him, trying to make his violent temper flare up, and joking around with one another.
Told by the vice principal they could sit wherever they pleased, the student and his pals plopped down under the sprawling branches of a shade tree in the campus courtyard.
In September 2006, as the school year kicked off, a black Jena High School student asked the vice principal if he and some friends could sit under an oak tree where the white students typically congregated.
Mahdi Obeidi, who used to run Iraq's covert uranium enrichment programme and had been famously ordered to hide the plans under a tree in his garden, concurs.
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Some classes of as many as 100 students are conducted under a big tree near the school buildings.
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