PR Newswire Broadcast Minute for Thursday, May 26, 2005

PR Newswire Broadcast Minute for Thursday, May 26, 2005

Large Majorities of U.S. Adults Expect Gas and Heating Prices to Rise

High gasoline prices have caused 40 percent of U-S adults who own or lease a vehicle to cut back on their spending on other goods or services, and the majority of the public expects gas prices to go even higher. According to a Harris Poll, two-thirds of all adults think that gas prices will be higher at the end of the summer than they are now. And even greater numbers are pessimistic about heating prices next winter; fully 80 percent of the public expects those costs to be higher. However, the public is not sure who is mainly to blame for increased fuel prices, with blame spread more or less equally among the U-S government, oil companies and OPEC and other foreign oil producers.

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Bridal Spending Tops $125 Billion, A 4% Increase Over Last 3 Years: 2005 "American Wedding Survey" Reveals

A recently published survey entitled "American Weddings," conducted by The Fairchild Bridal Group reveals that the total amount spent on weddings has increased five billion dollars to a total of 125-billion-dollars since 2002. There has also been a 13 percent decrease in the number of brides' parents paying for the entire wedding and a 100 percent increase in the amount of money couples spend on wedding photography and videography on their big day. And over the last fifteen years, the average cost of a wedding has grown 73 percent to $26,327.

Full story at: http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/main.jsp?resourceid=2956616

Housewives Desperate to Escape?

Nurses (55 percent), teachers (44 percent), and homemakers (43 percent) were ranked by U-S adults as the top-three most overworked professions in the Escape Completely study recently commissioned by Princess Cruises to assess U-S adult consumer opinions about people's need to "escape."

Full story at: http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/main.jsp?resourceid=2956996

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PRNewswire -- May 26

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