It then raised them for the return to Jakarta, where many businesses never reopened after the holiday.
At least a hundred children have not returned after the holiday - he thinks they've left Iraq with their parents.
After the holiday shipping cutoff, make a big push across all marketing channels for ecards and gift cards (in store).
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These workers were usually discharged on December 24 leaving regular associates to handle the return of unwanted gifts after the holiday.
Even after the holiday season, reality will have to set in sometime.
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Sales typically decrease in January after the holiday shopping rush is over.
Jay Foreman, CEO of Bridge Direct, said 15% to 30% of the workers at the factory he uses don't show up after the holiday.
The drop may also reflect the difficulty the government has in seasonally adjusting its data to account for layoffs after the holiday shopping season.
The other two great buying periods are immediately after the back-to-school shopping season and mid to late December after the holiday shopping frenzy is over.
However, the fact sales fell sharply after the holiday season, suggests tablet sales are already subject to the same trends as the broader electronics market, according to IDC.
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The mobile market always experiences a slump after the holiday rush, and the decline from the December quarter's sales of 36.2bn kronor could be as much as 30%.
Before the Christmas break, parents of children at St Mary Magdalen's were informed that teacher Nathan Upton would be coming back to work after the holiday as Lucy Meadows.
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For example, Pfizer, which repatriated the most money under the 2004 holiday laid off a massive amount of U.S. employees just after the holiday (about 3, 500 jobs) and closed factory doors.
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For example, on July 1, the SPDR Gold Trust ( GLD) gapped down to support, and then on July 5, after the holiday weekend, gapped higher, marking the start of the recent rally.
Every available spot of land is taken by a tent, and the usually quiet single road in and out of town can be backed up for hours before, during and after the holiday.
Congress had been scheduled to end its work last week, but legislators returned to Washington on Monday and leaders warned members to be prepared to stay until Christmas and return after the holiday until year-end.
There had been speculation that it would put off increasing petrol and diesel prices until after the holiday but on September 2nd pressed ahead with them anyway, though it imposed smaller rises (about 4-5%) than some analysts had predicted.
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They seem confident that their mainframes will survive New Year's Eve 1999 without a hiccup but they may be unable to get into their office after the holiday to see it for themselves, or may have to shiver in an unheated room while they do.
The Human Resources and Social Security Department of Guangdong estimated that 10 million workers, or 61% of the province's migrant-labor pool, would head home to see their families for the New Year Holiday, with a return rate of around 90%, leaving a labor shortfall of up to 1.2 million workers after the holiday.
The first-quarter is the seasonally smallest for toy makers, coming after the busy holiday quarter.
The only question is whether that tax will be imposed before or after the current holiday season.
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After presenting the Holiday programme, Frank Bough left the BBC in 1988.
The school has had problems since a number of staff left at Christmas, and had to delay its reopening after the Christmas holiday.
The council said the crack posed no great risk and work to repair the pathway would start from the 15 April, after the Easter holiday, to minimise disruption.
Plenty of rivals are going after the same holiday shoppers.
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Berlind originally made the proposal in response to a Robbie Bach claim that Microsoft would snatch the coveted number two position from SanDisk after the upcoming holiday season, which would require a daunting 7% improvement in market share and leapfrogging over Creative.
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According to Belgian media reports, the Belgian government said that the tour operator organizing the voyage, Aarschot-based Toptours, had an excellent record and that it was unlikely that the bus driver, who had arrived one day earlier in Switzerland, may have fallen asleep only 20 minutes after the group left the holiday resort.
As Russia's stockmarket reopened on Tuesday after the Victory Day holiday, shares plunged to their lowest levels of the year, as investors worried about growing instability.
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