They work hard to keep the business out of family gatherings and so far have been successful.
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First, the problems: a midweek 4th makes it harder for working folks to travel to take part in family gatherings.
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This does not make me popular at dinner parties and family gatherings.
But family gatherings, as wonderful as they may be, can also trigger some less than merry tension among the relative ranks.
This tradition is still a part of everyday life and festive occasions, including wedding ceremonies, community and family gatherings and religious services.
" And at family gatherings with their grandmother, there were frequent challenges to recite Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's famous (and famously lengthy) "Paul Revere's Ride.
Among the reasons: There's less competition, the season puts people in a receptive mood, and all those parties and family gatherings overflow with networking opportunities.
When the property is a "compound" consisting of one big home and a few smaller ones, siblings often set aside the larger property for family gatherings.
So-called "emotional labor" -- tasks like writing holiday cards, scheduling doctor appointments and planning family gatherings -- is too often left to wives, says University of Michigan sociologist Pamela Smock.
There are, of course, many other Christmas traditions - the food, the tree, decorations, family gatherings - and some argue that full pews at Christmas-time should be seen as part of that - a purely cultural thing.
We launched the new app exactly one month before the upcoming Fourth of July holiday, when American families will be taking to the road as they have always done, heading to family gatherings, the beach, parks, vacation homes and other diversions.
The tournament is also entwined with local religious practices, social gatherings, family visits and festivities at home and in the open air.
Those who went to gatherings of family or friends may have already begun to feel sick, and spread the virus to others.
But for the Super Bowl community, the most resonant rituals are the gatherings of friends and family.
This time of year most of us are making plans for gatherings and celebrations with family and friends.
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Every Irish school child is being pushed to send postcards to some distant relative, imploring family reconnection at one of countless gatherings of the clans being encouraged for 2013.
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But with this lavish listing hitting the market this week, less is going to be more when it comes to social gatherings among the extended Gorga family.
Today, women executives skip their husbands' gatherings because it takes too much time away from family.
But where Palin has mostly limited herself to an electronic presence in advance of her book release this month, Bachmann has supplemented her Web efforts with stops at dozens of key conservative gatherings, including high-profile events such as the annual Conservative Political Action Conference and the Family Research Council's Values Voter Summit.
ALLAHABAD, India (AP) Anxious relatives were searching for missing family members Monday in a northern India city that is home to one of the world's largest religious gatherings, unsure if their loved ones were caught in a stampede that killed 36 people or had simply gotten lost among the tens of millions of pilgrims.
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