Last Christmas Eve Michael Harding's wife Gretchen was in bed with the stomach flu.
Then, he flew home last Christmas for what was supposed to be two weeks' leave.
Last Christmas was the worst for ten years, and the gloom shows little sign of lifting.
The PlayStation, despite successfully warding off the N64 last Christmas, is definitely starting to show its age.
Last Christmas brought in more cash than Target execs needed for the incremental pace of store remodels.
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Example: Last Christmas my mother said she read a good book and tomorrow I will read the book she recommended.
The drop in applications for courses starting this month also follows the murder of Indian student Anuj Bidve in Manchester last Christmas.
The 17.4 million devices compares to an estimated 6.8 million iOS and Android devices last Christmas, a 156% increase year over year.
We vacationed here last Christmas, and I was introduced to an attorney who was looking to expand his practice to include my area of expertise.
The company had strong EU and Asian traction around last Christmas, but has since suffered grievously from launch delays of its new models.
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The film had been due for release last Christmas but was pushed back by Warner Bros to ensure it "reaches the largest audience possible".
Kurtzman says that when he raised watch prices last Christmas he didn't notice a meaningful decrease in demand, proving that selection is more important than price.
Thus the fund made a small investment in a company called Cybiko, whose wireless game and e-mail device was a hit with U.S. kids last Christmas.
Just last Christmas Day he was very happy to sit with a large glass of red wine having enjoyed a good dinner and chuckling at Absolutely Fabulous on TV.
He says that staff work under difficult conditions and that last Christmas some had to pool their money together to buy cake and cookies for the elderly residents.
Then, last Christmas, I discovered what financial freedom really means.
Last Christmas season I went to L.L. Bean to order some rain gear and repeatedly watched my computer curl up like a constipated dog every time I clicked on the order button.
That's exactly what Ann and Tom Kent did when they took their kids and grandkids to the Galapagos Islands last Christmas to celebrate their 50th anniversary, a trip arranged by Thomson Family Adventures.
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Last Christmas, I wrote a piece for Forbes, pointing out that 2011 was an unparalleled year of uncertainty because so much had happened that left us twisting in the wind, wondering what would happen next.
It is a phenomenon said to be part of the demise last year of Jessops and Comet, and a survey by agency Foolproof found that 24% of us admitted to doing it in the run-up to last Christmas.
But the publication of the paper in the scientific journal Lutra just before last Christmas seems to have been the catalyst that the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SSPCA) needed to come out against the cull.
Police said they prevented the bombing in a train station in Madrid last Christmas Eve, arresting the alleged plotters and seizing those who were planning to carry out the attack hours before it was to have taken place, Acebes said.
The El Segundo-based company is accusing the toy retailing giant of wooing Fuhu to sign an agreement to sell the Nabi exclusively through its 1, 600 stores and Web site last Christmas, using promises of millions of dollars in marketing and merchadising incentives as inducement.
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But suddenly, just before Christmas last year, Tammie's two-year battle paid off.
Lindsay had been out of work for about three months before her brother gave her a Web camera for Christmas last year.
The workers' plight was eased slightly at Christmas last year when local businesses clubbed together to throw a festive party for the sacked staff.
I've been drawing up a list of reasons to be cheerful in this last week before Christmas and that is one of the better ones.
Camera chain Jessops has gone under, music and DVD group HMV has closed 66 stores, while electrical chain Comet closed its doors for the last time before Christmas.
Many High Street retailers had reported a last-minute surge in shoppers the last weekend before Christmas, and bumper Boxing Day sales, following what had otherwise been a fairly quiet run-up to Christmas, not helped by the rain.
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