Let's hear a little snippet of Pony describing what Billie Holiday was like as a young girl.
For what is a holiday but a chance to relax, explore the natural surroundings and enjoy other people who are just as happy to do the same.
"People who are queuing and who are trying to meet a deadline need more information about what is happening to them to allay their anxiety, " said Ben DeCosta, aviation general manager at Hartsfield-Jackson. iReport.com: What are your holiday travel plans?
For out-and-out cheese, "Pac-Land" and the "Star Wars Holiday Special" have nothing on this, what may be the first holiday-themed sci-fi movie.
The survey asked more than 2, 000 employees what they want this holiday season.
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Many others who are having to work during what is normally a holiday month feel they are also entitled to extra payments.
We asked people on a holiday budget what they would do if they found the perfect gift for someone, but it would put them over-budget.
They might not like doing it, but faced with a parent bent on taking a child on holiday, what else are they going to do?
So what went wrong this holiday season?
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We went back to Kenya with Achieng on what will be her last holiday before 2012.
Whatever happens, this might be the last holiday season for what we consider the traditional console market.
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"We are offering the Asians what they want, " Holiday told CNN.
If you figure out your monthly expenses and compare that with your income, you'll have a better idea of what you can afford this holiday season.
Gift cards often get a bad rap as the last resort in holiday shopping, what we supposedly get only when all hope of a carefully considered present has gone out the window.
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With Cyber Monday deals also spread over three days, we expect the traffic to keep growing steadily over the period and help the company sustain its growth in what should be a blockbuster holiday season.
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Tony Blair, for example, chose a Tuscan holiday to show what a fine European Britain's new prime minister is, and for good measure has found time to hobnob with his Italian counterpart, Romano Prodi, whose home town of Bologna is just up the road.
Looking ahead, the company expects to see margins contract further in the next quarter as it looks to launch a number of lower margin new products ahead of the holiday season in what is going to be the broadest product refresh cycle in its history.
Of course, you don't need us to tell you just how many options are out there, but if your "best friend" (ahem) was looking to pick up an HD DVD player that packed plenty of features to please even the in-laws this holiday season, what's the unit to recommend?
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Walt's also high on the inclusion of WiFi and the portrait-mode keyboard, but ain't nothing gonna make that BlackBerry browser any good, and the big guy says the touch interface still feels tacked to the rapidly-aging BlackBerry OS. So Walt -- now that you've confirmed RIM and Verizon's big holiday launch, what can you tell us about pricing and availability?
That's what I'm doing this holiday weekend: eating seasoned curly fries.
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Much of Umbria turned out to be sprinkled with unattractive little holiday homes that wrecked what would otherwise be one of the prettiest landscapes in Europe.
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There are tons of guides available for how and how not to act during the course of a company holiday event, but what about the morning after?
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What will sell the most this holiday season?
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This most recent quarterly performance drove the stock to levels not seen since earlier this year when Coach missed earnings expectations for the holiday period due to what management blamed as weakness in the economy.
While many of the world's most opulent villas lure guests with an array of cool toys (and we do mean cool -- how does recording studio equipment once used by John Lennon sound?), others deal in what may be the most coveted holiday-home currency: privacy.
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