On Dec. 4, it announced plans to accelerate a 25-cent dividend payment normally funded in January to Dec. 25.
To add to the unpredictability, the league has yet to unveil its 66-game schedule, which is set to begin Dec. 25.
In our Dec. 25 Investment Guide issue, we will list the contest questions, which you can answer and enter on the Internet at Forbes.com.
Lily, Sarah and Grace are three young sisters who lost their lives when their Stamford home burned to the ground on Dec. 25, 2011.
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By "this time of year, " I mean something that starts no later than Thanksgiving (and often sooner) and pervades the entire atmosphere until Dec. 25.
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Last month, Apple reported a 78% increase in profit and 71% rise in revenue for the quarter ended Dec. 25 on strong demand for its iPhones, iPads and Macintosh computers.
NSA, like other organizations within the 17-member U.S. Intelligence Community (IC), redoubled its efforts at intelligence sharing following the attempted bombing of a Northwest Airlines flight on Dec. 25, 2009.
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Nearly 36 million packages of Twinkies were sold in the year ended Dec. 25, down almost 2% from a year earlier, according to data from SymphonyIRI Group, a Chicago-based market-research firm.
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The Dow, meanwhile, stood at 990.25 on Dec. 16, 1982, which would equate to 2, 120 today.
Sears Holdings plummeted more than 25% on Dec. 27, after warning of a weak holiday quarter.
On Dec. 6, 1975, with 25 days to spare, Mia was born in a Brooklyn hospital.
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Hecla declared a dividend of 2.25 cents per share, payable around Dec. 5 to shareholders of record as of Nov. 27.
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Take the historical returns on stocks over 25-year periods, starting with Dec. 31, 1925 to Dec. 31, 1950 and continuing with every quarter since.
Ever since the devastating suicide bombings of Dec. 1 and 2 in Jerusalem and Haifa that murdered 25 Israelis, world attention has been on Yasser Arafat.
There are still plenty of marathons in relatively large cities left this year, including San Antonio (Nov. 11), Kansas City, Mo. (Nov. 17), Seattle (Nov. 25) and Jacksonville, Fla. (Dec. 16).
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We now expect a 25-basis-point cut in the Federal funds rate and discount rate on Dec. 11.
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