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• n  European evergreen plant with white or purplish rose-like winter-blooming flowers

• Christmas rose
• winter rose
• black hellebore
• Helleborus niger

News & Articles

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• Deep discounts fail to woo U.S. holiday shoppers
  U.S. retailers posted their lowest holiday sales growth in four years after shoppers stayed at home despite some of the biggest discounts and promotions since the recession, retail industry tracker ShopperTrak said. Retail sales between Thanksgiving and Christmas rose 2.7 percent, compared with 3.0 percent a year earlier, while the number of people walking into stores across the United States ...
  Jan. 8, 2014 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
• Discounts drive U.S. holiday retail growth: ShopperTrak
  Promotions and discounts offered by U.S. retailers drove a 2.7 percent rise in holiday season sales despite six fewer days and a cold snap that kept shoppers from stores, retail industry tracker ShopperTrak said. Reflecting a recovering U.S. economy, retail sales between Thanksgiving and Christmas rose for the fourth consecutive year, even though the number of people walking into stores fell 14 ...
  Jan. 8, 2014 - Reuters via Yahoo! News