We wish you all the best in the New Year, and look forward to hearing from you.

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But that is not all she and her family like to do to celebrate the New Year.

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I'm 48 years old. In the New Year, I just hope things start to get right again.

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For the New Year, I want the Eagles to go to the Superbowl and world peace.

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Two other traditions for welcoming the New Year are a midnight kiss and an attempt to sing a song that almost no one knows.

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We wish you all happiness and good fortune in the New Year, and hope will join us again next time for THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English.

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Eating it at the New Year is thought to bring good luck.

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People observe the New Year's holiday in many different ways.

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and the New Year's procession will be led by grand marshal Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, the celebrated airline pilot.

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Fair-goers can take part in ritual cleanings and make a wish for the New Year.

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And the U.S. and the 16 nation Eurozone can expect modest but continued expansion even as job growth continues to lag in the new year.

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House-Senate negotiations aimed at reconciling the two versions of the bill are not expected to begin until the new year, although informal contacts are likely already under way.

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When Congress returns in the new year, negotiators for the House and Senate will begin the tough task of merging their different versions of health-care reform legislation into one bill the president can sign.

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These talks, which will formally get under way early in the new year, will take place amid anger among many liberal House Democrats the Senate bill failed to contain a government-run insurance option.

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Obama administration officials have been quoted as saying they anticipate negotiations on a final bill would not be complete until after the president's State of the Union Address in January, and could slip even later into the new year.

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Republicans have made clear they will continue to underscore what they call the long-term deficit and debt risks for the economy of the legislation President Obama hopes to be able to sign not too far into the new year.

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Ten children ages eight to fourteen were in New York recently for the finals of this year's Discovery/3M Young Scientist Challenge.

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The bands this year include the Decemberists and the Killers, as well as new acts like the Virgins and White Lies.

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Without new treatments, the WHO said, the number of new cancer patients could increase to 27 million a year by 2030.

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This term is used especially for plants like herbs that produce new growth year after year from the same root structure.

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