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Gift Ideas & News - Wednesday 02nd of March 2005 12:00:02 AM

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Couples Help Charities With Wedding Gifts (WCCO 4)

(WCCO) Some couples count on wedding gifts to help them start a new life together. Thanks to a new foundation, they can help others at the same time. The I Do Foundation works like a regular online wedding gift registry: Couples sign up and choose the gifts they want. The difference?

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Gift Ideas & News - Tuesday 01st of March 2005 12:00:04 AM

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The Family & Children's Center in La Crosse has appointed Meredyth Lillejord (see photo) as director of major gifts. (River Valley Business Report)

The Family & Children's Center in La Crosse has appointed Meredyth Lillejord (see photo) as director of major gifts. She joins Jennifer Mikunda, director of development, and John Bur-gess, president and chief executive officer, in overseeing the agency's development efforts.

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Gift Ideas & News - Monday 28th of February 2005 12:00:01 AM

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Gift Ideas & News - Sunday 27th of February 2005 12:00:02 AM

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House kills bill to limit gifts (Rocky Mountain News)

Colorado will continue to be the only state where there is no limit to the amount of gifts its legislators can accept. After contentious debate Friday, a majority of the 65 members of the House said "no" to a bill that would have capped cash gifts at and other gifts at .

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Gift Ideas & News - Saturday 26th of February 2005 12:00:03 AM

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VCU receives million in gifts and pledges (Richmond.com)

What was your favorite story this week? Richmond.com Wednesday, February 23, 2005 The Campaign for Virginia Commonwealth University has received million in pledges and new gifts earmarked for its Monroe Park Campus fundraising efforts, VCU officials announced Wednesday.

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Gift Ideas & News - Friday 25th of February 2005 12:00:02 AM

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Gift Ideas & News - Thursday 24th of February 2005 12:00:07 AM

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Gift Ideas & News - Wednesday 23rd of February 2005 12:00:04 AM

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FPS accepts gifts to district (Fremontneb.com)

In a Monday night meeting that was more pleasure than business, Fremont Public Schools board of education voted to approve a multitude of gifts to the district from individuals and organizations.

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Gift Ideas & News - Tuesday 22nd of February 2005 12:00:02 AM

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Createafavor.com States Watch Out, the New Personalized Gifts Arrive in Time (PR Web via Yahoo! News)

(PRWEB) February 21, 2005 -- Createafavor.com fills the popular demand by adding to its personalized watch line a new trendy wedding classic. A mans personalized pewter brushed pocket watch with blue face. An elegant gift for groomsmen, the father of the bride or any man who appreciates the classic look of a pocket watch. The engraved cover makes it an especially thoughtful gift. Each pewter

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Gift Ideas & News - Monday 21st of February 2005 12:00:02 AM

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Gift Ideas & News - Sunday 20th of February 2005 12:00:00 AM

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Bombay's 'meals-on-toes' join Britain's royal wedding gifts race (AFP via Yahoo! News)

Bombay's fleet-footed "lunch-runners" are trying to get ahead in the race to shower Prince Charles and his fiancee, Camilla Parker Bowles, with wedding gifts.

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Gift Ideas & News - Saturday 19th of February 2005 12:00:03 AM

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Gift Ideas & News - Friday 18th of February 2005 12:00:01 AM

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Gift Ideas & News - Thursday 17th of February 2005 12:00:01 AM

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Major Gifts of Cash and Art for Texas Museums (New York Times)

HOUSTON, Feb. 15 - In a shower of philanthropy valued at some 0 million, the Dallas Museum of Art on Tuesday announced a series of cash gifts and art bequests from leading collectors that will enrich the museum's holdings by more than 800 Modern and contemporary works, including those by masters like Monet, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko and Gerhard Richter.

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Gift Ideas & News - Wednesday 16th of February 2005 12:00:02 AM

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Lazard Facing Probe Over Gifts And Gratuities, by Glen Shapiro, LawAndTax-News.com, New York 15 February 2005 (Investors Offshore)

In an amended prospectus for its 0 million initial public offering (IPO) released on Friday, Paris-based investment bank, Lazard revealed that it is facing probes by both the National Association of Securities Dealers and the Securities and Exchange Commission over gifts and gratuities given to an unnamed mutual fund firm.

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Gift Ideas & News - Monday 14th of February 2005 12:00:01 AM

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Councils pledge to accept no gifts or money tied to pending issues (WRGB)

(Springfield, MASS - AP) â Eleven neighborhood councils in Springfield are pledging not to accepts gifts or money from developers in exchange for support of issues or projects.

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Gift Ideas & News - Wednesday 09th of February 2005 12:00:00 AM

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Gifts make New Year go round in booming China (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

The Chinese New Year which begins today is a traditional time for exchanging gifts but in modern-day China there's a thin line between giving a holiday present and offering a bribe.

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Gift Ideas & News - Tuesday 08th of February 2005 12:00:00 AM

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Gifts, Get-Well Messages Pour in for Pope (AP via Yahoo! News)

A 6-foot flower arrangement. Children's letters. A harp made of matchsticks. From inmates at prisons he has visited to diplomats from one of the few countries he hasn't, an ailing Pope John Paul II is being flooded with get-well gifts.

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Gift Ideas & News - Monday 07th of February 2005 12:00:01 AM

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Gift Ideas & News - Sunday 06th of February 2005 12:00:01 AM

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Gift Ideas & News - Saturday 05th of February 2005 12:00:01 AM

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Valentine's Day: 10 Gifts She'll Love (AskMen)

Don't fall behind in the game of love. St. Valentine's Day is right around the corner, so start thinking about buying some gifts before it's too late. Stuck for ideas? Worry not; that's what I'm here for.

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Gift Ideas & News - Friday 04th of February 2005 12:00:01 AM

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Gifts Aplenty in College Park (WTOP Radio Network)

ANNAPOLIS, Md. - Two University of Maryland alumni are giving the College Park campus million each, gifts described Thursday by President C. D. Mote as the largest ever to a public university in Maryland.

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Gift Ideas & News - Thursday 03rd of February 2005 12:00:00 AM

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Executive reveals gifts accepted by ministers (The Scotsman)

AN Aer Arran T-shirt and a silver model of a dhow were two of the gifts given to ministers by airlines in the last year.

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Gift Ideas & News - Wednesday 02nd of February 2005 12:00:02 AM

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Senators push for the removal of rule on gifts from lobbyists (Kansas City Star via Yahoo! News)

JEFFERSON CITY â A Senate committee Monday night voted to abolish a rule that limited gifts from lobbyists to no more than .

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Gift Ideas & News - Tuesday 01st of February 2005 12:00:01 AM

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Princesshdesigns.com Announces New Product Line - Handcrafted, Unique and Unusual Jewelry Gifts for Baby Boy or Girl, (PR Web)

Princess H Designs (www.princesshdesigns.com), the leading provider of handcrafted jewelry gifts for baby announces the promotion of its special product line, http://shop.princesshdesigns.com/site/department~id~C8339065-B0D0-F799-E88D4D0D747437BE~killnav~1.htm [Unusual Baby Gifts and Jewelry] available now through our website. [PRWEB Jan 31, 2005]

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Gift Ideas & News - Monday 31st of January 2005 12:00:01 AM

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His Genes Hold Gifts. Mine Carry Risk. (New York Times)

His Genes Hold Gifts. Mine Carry Risk. I CARRY a gene for a serious disorder, but my husband, who hopes for children, married me anyway. I remember the black Seattle rain as we drove at night three years ago.

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Gift Ideas & News - Sunday 30th of January 2005 12:00:01 AM

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Gift Ideas & News - Saturday 29th of January 2005 12:00:01 AM

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Valentine's gifts for someone truly special (@Metro KL)

VALENTINE'S Day is around the corner and for those who are still going through counters and shopping catalogues to find the perfect gift, here are some exclusive gifts.

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Gift Ideas & News - Friday 28th of January 2005 12:00:01 AM

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Ellen Celebrates Birthday with Cheap Gifts and Paris Hilton Makeover (Hollywood.com)

Chat show host Ellen DeGeneres celebrated her 47th birthday yesterday by handing out gifts she picked up at a Los Angeles 99-cent store to audience members--and guest Paris Hilton.

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Gift Ideas & News - Thursday 27th of January 2005 12:00:01 AM

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Sunset Gifts and Collectibles - New Store, Easy Shopping (PR Web via Yahoo! News)
Ypsilanti, MI (PRWEB) January 26, 2005 -- If you're one of those people that doesn't like to battle crowds at the mall, you might like to try gift shopping online. Sunset Gifts and Collectibles is a new Internet gift shop designed to eliminate the necessity for travel. Built as a one-stop store, there is a wide variety of items to choose from. Most of these products cannot be found in local

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Gift Ideas & News - Wednesday 26th of January 2005 12:00:02 AM

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Ex-S.J. official surrenders to face charges over gifts (San Jose Mercury News)

Former San Jose Councilman Terry Gregory, who resigned from office under pressure last week, surrendered to authorities Monday. He was booked on suspicion of 11 misdemeanor counts of failing to report gifts, a loan, and participating in city decisions in which he had a financial conflict of interest.

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Gift Ideas & News - Monday 24th of January 2005 12:00:01 AM

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Some of Carson's gifts to Nebraska, Iowa projects (Omaha World-Herald)

Some of the donations by Johnny Carson to Nebraska and Iowa cities and institutions. In some cases, Carson asked that the amount not be announced. Carson also is known to make gifts anonymously.

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Gift Ideas & News - Sunday 23rd of January 2005 12:00:01 AM

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Kaine, Kilgore disclose finances, gifts (Richmond Times-Dispatch)

The two candidates for governor are moderately wealthy men who are careful investors and are not reluctant to accept free rides and gifts.

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Gift Ideas & News - Saturday 22nd of January 2005 12:00:01 AM

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Gift Ideas & News - Friday 21st of January 2005 12:00:01 AM

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Lawmakers trying to limit gifts for politicians (Summit Daily News)

DENVER - Two state legislators are trying to change a law that allowed Gov. Bill Owens to accept gifts and money for speeches that nearly doubled his salary and another that allows lawmakers to accept unlimited cash gifts.

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Gift Ideas & News - Thursday 20th of January 2005 12:00:01 AM

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Residents donate more than 5,000 to send gifts to Michigan soldiers (Pioneer Press)

LANSING, Mich. - Michigan residents donated more than 5,000 to help buy holiday gifts for 2,000 Michigan soldiers deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan, state officials said Wednesday.

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Gift Ideas & News - Wednesday 19th of January 2005 12:00:01 AM

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Tesco's Holiday Sales Increase 7.6% on Food, Gifts (Update7) (Bloomberg.com)

U.K. Jan. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Tesco Plc, the biggest U.K. supermarket operator, said revenue increased during the Christmas and New Year holidays as the company sold more food and gifts and opened stores in Asia and Eastern Europe.

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Gift Ideas & News - Tuesday 18th of January 2005 12:00:01 AM

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Washoe school trustees to discuss gifts policy (KRNV)

Washoe County School District trustees want to clarify a policy on a when the district can accept or donate gifts. School board members asked for a written policy after questions rose about former Superintendent Jim Hager donating ,200 to the United Way between 2001 and 2003.

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Gift Ideas & News - Monday 17th of January 2005 12:00:01 AM

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Gifts, fees hike Owens' pay (Denver Post)

Gov. Bill Owens nearly doubled his state salary in 2004, receiving ,089 worth of gifts and speaking fees, according to his annual report to the state Friday.

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Gift Ideas & News - Sunday 16th of January 2005 12:00:01 AM

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Gifts, fees hike Owens' pay (Denver Post)
Gov. Bill Owens nearly doubled his state salary in 2004, receiving ,089 worth of gifts and speaking fees, according to his annual report to the state Friday.

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Gift Ideas & News - Saturday 15th of January 2005 12:00:01 AM

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Presidential Gifts (KYW)

MERCER COUNTY, N.J. (KYW) By tradition, the President and Vice-President receive gifts from the American people after their inaugurations. As CBS 3âs Pat Ciarrocchi reports, for years those gifts have been made by Lenox, in Mercer County, New Jersey.

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Gift Ideas & News - Friday 14th of January 2005 12:00:01 AM

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Radio Programmer Fired for Taking Gifts (AP via Yahoo! News)

A radio station programmer has been fired for breaking the station's rules against taking gifts from business contacts, a station executive said Wednesday.

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Gift Ideas & News - Thursday 13th of January 2005 12:00:00 AM

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MTA EXECS CHARGED OVER GIFTS (New York Post via Yahoo! News)
Fourteen MTA employees were charged yesterday with illegally taking gifts from companies doing business with the agency.

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Gift Ideas & News - Wednesday 12th of January 2005 12:00:33 AM

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Youth bears birthday without gifts (Star-Telegram)
FORT WORTH _ Brady Stephenson went without birthday gifts this year to help children he doesn't know and in memory of a grandfather he never met. "He's a typical 7-year-old, but he has a big heart," said dad, Michael Stephenson.

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Gift Ideas & News - Tuesday 11th of January 2005 12:00:01 AM

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An invasion of cheats: The evolution of worthless nuptial gifts (EurekAlert!)
So-called nuptial gifts Ã¢ÂÂ often consisting of food or tokens Ã¢ÂÂ are typically bestowed by males on females as part of courtship and copulation rituals in many species.

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Gift Ideas & News - Monday 10th of January 2005 12:00:01 AM

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Bikers give gifts, rides to street kids (The Freeman)
Members of six biker clubs here in Cebu brought smiles to the faces of street children after giving them food and gifts during an activity yesterday.

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Gift Ideas & News - Sunday 09th of January 2005 12:00:01 AM

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Ex-pension official sentenced for taking illegal gifts (Ohio News Network)
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A former Dayton police officer has been placed on probation and fined for accepting ,800 in meals, golf outings, travel and other gifts from vendors while serving on a state pension fund.

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Gift Ideas & News - Saturday 08th of January 2005 12:00:03 AM

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Memberships so far add ,995 Gifts to FM Museum total ,000 (Fort Morgan Times)
More than ,000 in gifts have been received by the Fort Morgan Museum in the past month, Fort Morgan Heritage Foundation trustees were told Thursday.

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Gift Ideas & News - Friday 07th of January 2005 12:00:02 AM

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Urgent gifts needed for Ghana and tsunami victims (Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise)
Debbie Cramer and her husband Jerry from Mound Valley, Kan., have partnered in a mission effort for "Gathering Gifts for Ghana, West Africa" and F.A.M.E. (Fellowship Association Medical Evangelism).

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Gift Ideas & News - Wednesday 05th of January 2005 12:00:01 AM

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Jefferson Street Methodist youth present strangers with Christmas gifts (The Natchez Democrat)
Some Wednesday night mall shoppers went home with more than just what they bought. Members of the Jefferson Street United Methodist Church youth group presented lucky strangers with small gifts as a way of showing God's love.

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Gift Ideas & News - Monday 03rd of January 2005 12:00:02 AM

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Gift Ideas & News - Saturday 01st of January 2005 12:00:01 AM

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Justice Thomas Reports Wealth of Gifts (Los Angeles Times via Yahoo! News)
WASHINGTON Ã¢ÂÂ; Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has accepted tens of thousands of dollars worth of gifts since joining the high court, including $;1,200 worth of tires, valuable historical items and a $;5,000 personal check to help pay a relative's education expenses.

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Gift Ideas & News - Friday 31st of December 2004 12:00:01 AM

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Troopers Search For Person Who Dropped Gifts On Highway (Officer.com)
A North Carolina highway patrol officer needs help to find the person who lost Christmas gifts on the side of the road. It happened along interstate 85 in Cabarrus County.

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Gift Ideas & News - Thursday 30th of December 2004 12:00:01 AM

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ConsumerWatch: Making Music Of Bad Gifts (The Omaha Channel)
OMAHA, Neb. -- Did you get a gift you didn't love this Christmas? A music story is going to help you turn your frown upside down. It's called the "bad gift boycott" and Sam Goody Stores are exchanging the worst possible gifts for gift cards -- some worth as much as 0.

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Gift Ideas & News - Wednesday 29th of December 2004 12:00:02 AM

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Health Tip: Mail-Order Food Gifts (HealthDay via Yahoo! News)
(HealthDay News) -- The explosive growth of the Internet has led more and more Americans to order holiday gifts online.

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Gift Ideas & News - Monday 27th of December 2004 12:00:01 AM

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Online casino buys naughty kids' gifts (USA Today)
An online casino that bought a cheese sandwich said to bear the Virgin Mary's image and a cane sold to banish a young boy's fear of ghosts has struck again this time paying a man ,300 for his naughty children's Christmas gifts.

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Gift Ideas & News - Sunday 26th of December 2004 12:00:01 AM

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Christmas Gifts Finally Find A Tree (R News)
You could call it a case of being "all dressed up with nowhere to go." Dozens of donated Christmas gifts were wrapped and ready to give to needy children, but no one was there to collect them Christmas Eve.

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Gift Ideas & News - Friday 24th of December 2004 12:00:01 AM

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Unwanted gifts will be wanted elsewhere (NZZ)
The operation, called Twice Christmas , will collect surplus gifts and distribute them with the help of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation, Swiss Post and the Swiss Red Cross.

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Gift Ideas & News - Wednesday 22nd of December 2004 12:00:02 AM

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'Green' gifts top Christmas lists (CNN.com)
CNN -- Christmas Eve is one of the biggest shopping days of the year. As many last-minute shoppers scramble to the stores, some people are opting for a more "colorful" choice this holiday season. They're buying green gifts.

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Gift Ideas & News - Tuesday 21st of December 2004 12:00:01 AM

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Gifts for mayors past and present, and others (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
As usual, it's almost Christmas and my shopping isn't done yet. (OK, I haven't even started.) In keeping with the holiday spirit of giving, I'll be searching for some extra-special gifts this year, each chosen with a specific person in mind.

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Gift Ideas & News - Monday 20th of December 2004 12:00:00 AM

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Christmas gifts stolen from woman's car (Capital News 9)
Police are looking for the person who stole Christmas gifts from an Albany woman's car. Albany police said someone broke into Heather Stone's car Saturday night and stole more than ,800 worth of Christmas gifts. The car was parked in front of her Cuyler Street home.

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Gift Ideas & News - Sunday 19th of December 2004 12:00:01 AM

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The Gift of Learning; Lessons As Gifts Give Recipients a Taste of Fun to Come (Red Nova)
Apony won't fit under the Christmas tree. Neither will a kayak, airplane or sailboat. But lessons - in horseback riding, kayaking, flying and other pastimes - could be fitting gifts for the folks on your list. "Many gifts get put away right after Christmas or last only a short time.

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Gift Ideas & News - Saturday 18th of December 2004 12:00:01 AM

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Last-minute rush by men for luxury gifts likely (Financial Times)
Retailers stocking lingerie, perfume and jewellery are expecting a strong upturn in sales this weekend as men rush to buy last-minute gifts. for their partners.

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Gift Ideas & News - Friday 17th of December 2004 12:00:00 AM

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Fidelity Disciplines 16 Traders Over Gifts From Brokers (New York Times)
The move was part of an extensive investigation into whether Fidelity employees improperly accepted gifts and entertainment from brokers.

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Gift Ideas & News - Thursday 16th of December 2004 12:00:01 AM

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Gifts to Fidelity Employees Attract Investigators (New York Times)
Fidelity Investments is in the middle of an investigation about gifts and entertainment on Wall Street. And some on Wall Street have never been happier.

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Gift Ideas & News - Wednesday 15th of December 2004 12:00:00 AM

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Gift Ideas & News - Tuesday 14th of December 2004 12:00:01 AM

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New Rules for Teacher Gifts: Apples (but Perhaps No iPods) (New York Times)
New York parents who want to buy holiday gifts for teachers have a new per student spending limit.

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Gift Ideas & News - Monday 13th of December 2004 12:00:00 AM

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William Safire: An annual list of the gifts of gab (International Herald Tribune)
WASHINGTON To enliven the life of the mouth, 'tis the season for gifts of books about language. ('Tis, a contraction of it is, takes an apostrophe; till, which is an older word than until and not its shortening, does not.)

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Gift Ideas & News - Sunday 12th of December 2004 12:00:01 AM

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Martin plans to buy Christmas gifts last minute (CTV.ca)
OTTAWA Ã¢ÂÂ The Martin family may have to make do with gifts from airport boutiques if the prime minister sticks to his traditional Christmas shopping schedule.

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Gift Ideas & News - Saturday 11th of December 2004 07:15:45 AM

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Flat-screen TVs are hot holiday gifts (Miami Herald)
Along with top-of-the-range laptops and digital cameras, flat-screen TVs are joining the list of big ticket must-have gifts this Christmas.

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Giving gifts is a basic human way of establishing and strengthening social relationships. French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss tells how, in inexpensive restaurants in the south of France, two strangers often share a small table at lunch. They eat their food separately but treat the carafe of wine set at each plate very differently. One person lifts his or her own carafe and pours the wine into the other's glass. The neighbor then reciprocates.

Why? In a sense, nothing has happened.Two identical items have been exchanged and consumed. But, as Levi-Strauss observes, "there is much more in the exchange itself than in the things exchanged.' The gift-giving sets in motion a set of mutual obligations for cordiality and conversation. For the course of a lunch hour, gift-giving has established a social relationship. It does so in all human societies under all sorts of circumstances.

We know from research as well aseveryday observation that people cherish things they receive as gifts. In one study, sociologist Eugene Rochberg-Halton asked middle-class and working-class Chicagoans which household objects they especially valued and how they had acquired them. Forty percent of the objects mentioned had been received as gifts or had been inherited, another form of gift-giving.

Rochberg-Halton found that certainkinds of cherished goods were particularly likely to have been gifts. Forty-eight percent of the pieces of jewelry mentioned were acquired as gifts, and another 19 percent inherited. So were 40 and 33 percent of the clocks, 44 and 33 percent of the glassware and 47 and 29 percent of the silverware. Sixty-five percent of the houseplants mentioned had come as gifts, often as cuttings from friends' plants--friendship symbolized through a bond of living matter. Gifts come to embody and personify the spirit of the giver.

We consider some objects moresuitable as gifts than others. Since it is often more important that a gift be meaningful than that it be useful, many of the most "useless' or luxurious things that people buy are presented as gifts.

It is no coincidence that the mostobviously useful gift of all--money --is widely regarded as a vulgar or thoughtless gift. It becomes more acceptable if it is less negotiable or disguished in some way--as a savings bond or a silver dollar, say, rather than cash or a check. Or if a check is given, it is more acceptable as part of a ritual. For several generations in my family, for example, annual birthday checks from grandfather and father have been adjusted each year to the age of the growing child.

Advertising also plays a part in determininghow acceptable a gift is. Just as advertisers play off the universal human practice of giving gifts, consumers use advertising as a guide to the status of various goods and thus to their suitability. For gift-giving purposes, the quality of the good may be less important than cultural assumptions, partly shaped by advertising, about the product's status. The gift, after all, is meant as a social statement, not a contribution to the recipient's material well-being.

Since women are the unpaid socialdirectors of American society, they are also its chief gift-givers. Even affluent women exchange clothes for special occasions more than men do, exchange recipes, take responsibility for the handing down of children's clothes and toys and remember to give birthday and anniversary cards and gifts. When sociologist Theodore Caplow and his colleagues restudied "Middletown' (Muncie, Indiana) in their 1982 book, Middletown Families, they found that women do most of the work involved in Christmas gift-giving: They decorate, they wrap, they purchase most of the gifts they give jointly with their husband and they give more gifts in their own name than the men do.

We may rail at the commercializationof Christmas, but commercialization is not proof that Americans have lost their spirituality. We have certainly not forsaken family values for material consumption; very often, we consume materials to preserve families. With so many young people going away to college, with the number of single-person households rising rapidly, with high divorce rates and an increase in joint-custody arrangements, family life has not ended but rather has been changed and territorially stretched. People use more goods and services --airplanes, buses, long-distance telephone lines--to hold their families together. Gift-giving is part of this social glue.

I am not suggesting that just becausea person buys something as a gift, the materialism it expresses is benign. The social importance of Christmas giving in American society and the premium placed on expensive gifts have social costs. Credit-counseling centers see a lot of people in February and March each year as bills for Christmas giving become past due. At Christmas, people try to cement the social bonds that matter to them; or, to speak of the pathological side, they use gifts to buy love or ease guilt. And they will go deeply into debt to do so.

People are especially likely to gooverboard at certain other times as well: when they are buying for weddings, arranging payment for funerals and cemetery upkeep, sending a son or daughter off to college, shopping for a nursing home for parents and buying almost anything at all for children or, in some households, for pets. These are all situations where the social, gift-giving element in human relations overpowers self-regarding narcissism. Consumers are certainly especially vulnerable in these situations but not especially materialistic.

What distinguishes an affluent societyis not that people are grasping, but that, grasping or giving, they reach for material goods to express themselves. This is not, in itself, evidence of selfishness or shallowness. Just as every bought object is a convenience good, compared to something homemade, so every giving of things rather than sharing of time is a convenience. The commercialization of Christmas is a sign that people are choosing to express their social natures and their generous natures through material goods, which are both convenient to buy and often relatively permanent as a social bond.

In a society in which, increasingly,both parents work outside the home, this type of "materialism' is likely to increase as people choose to save time rather than money. This may raise questions about how we organize our lives and our time, but it does not impugn the moral worth of individuals. What does raise moral questions, I believe, is our national failure to encourage people to enlarge their views of their own social worlds and to share their good fortune, throughout the year, with many others who have so little.