New seasonal fashions brought out many apparel shoppers beating our sales expectations for some specialty apparel retailers, ... Overall, the industry is getting better at fixing short-term merchandising missteps, and October's cooler weather certainly brought out favorable reaction from many shoppers.
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The purpose of seasonal festivals is periodically to revive the topocosm. Gaster coined this word from the Greek topo for place and cosmos for world order. Topocosm means 'the world order of a particular place.' The topocosm is the entire complex of any given locality conceived as a living organism, not just the human community but the total community the plants, animals and soils of the place. The topocosm is not only the actual and present living community but also that continuous entity of which the present community is but the current manifestation.
Remove the artificial watering holes and the elephants will resume their natural behavior of seasonal migration, giving places they have left a chance to recover.
Regarding R. H. Blyth The first book in English based on the saijiki is R. H. Blyth's Haiku, published in four volumes from 1949 to 1952. After the first, background volume, the remaining three consist of a collection of Japanese haiku with translations, all organized by season, and within the seasons by traditional categories and about three hundred seasonal topics.
Other than seasonal weakness, the Taiwan dollar's recent appreciation is expected to cost TSMC 4 pct of its sales in the current quarter.
The Illinois housing market continues to be a solid driver of the state's economy and, in 2006, REALTORS(r) anticipate strong demand for homeownership and favorable price appreciation. Home sales in Illinois tend to follow a seasonal trend with the strongest months being April through September, so it's no surprise that fourth-quarter activity over the holiday months was slower than previous periods. For the quarter, rates inched up above six percent and this combined with mild job and economic growth factored in as well to homebuyer decisions.
We saw softness in apparel and other seasonal merchandise in the latter part of March, ... While higher gas prices pinched tax refund money, consumers have also indicated that they traveled less to shopping centers. The impact from that aspect may not be huge but it was a factor.
After a long, cold winter, consumers are ready to pack away their scarves and gloves and hit the stores for their spring wardrobe. The seasonal weather should allow many apparel retailers to breathe a sigh of relief.
Typically, winter weather is both bad news and good news, ... It's good because it drives demand for seasonal goods like coats, gloves and snowboards. The risk is that we will have more storms ahead, but it's hard to predict if they will fall on weekends.
One of the joys our technological civilisation has lost is the excitement with which seasonal flowers and fruits were welcomed the first daffodil, strawberry or cherry are now things of the past, along with their precious moment of arrival.
There are two seasonal diversions that can ease the bite of any winter. One is the January thaw. The other is the seed catalogues.
If we were left solely to the wordy wit of legislators in Congress for our guidance, uncorrected by the seasonal experience and the effectual complaints of the people, America would not long retain her rank among the nations.
The Monster Employment Index has shown strong, steady, upward growth throughout most of 2005, with a noteworthy growth trend over the past four months, ending in an expected seasonal dip in December. The past month's decline indicates the slowdown in online hiring registered in December of 2003 and 2004, as employers typically wrap up their seasonal hiring activity and await approval on 2006 budgets. Despite this anticipated seasonal slowdown, almost all industries, occupations, regions and states show much higher levels of online job availability than a year ago, demonstrating solid growth over the course of 2005. This certainly bodes well for job seekers as we enter 2006.
Life set itself to new processions of seed-time and harvest, the skin newly turned to seasonal variations, the very blood humming to new altitudes.
I actually see the Mars year anniversary as being more significant, ... We will have seen Mars over an entire seasonal cycle.
Even though yesterday's rally may have faded, the leadership, internal action, and breadth were all reasons to anticipate further upside potential heading into the seasonal year-end pattern.