PR Newswire Broadcast Minute for Tuesday, December 13, 2005

PR Newswire Broadcast Minute for Tuesday, December 13, 2005

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Online Holiday Shopping Grows 33 Percent Year-Over-Year During Sixth Week of Holiday Season, According to Nielsen//NetRatings Holiday eShopping Index

Nielsen//NetRatings has announced that its Holiday eShopping Index saw a 33 percent year-over-year increase in the total number of online shopping trips during the week ending December 4th. The Nielsen//NetRatings Holiday eShopping Index is comprised of over 100 representative online retailers across ten categories, and acts as a barometer to gauge the level of activity at online shopping destinations during the holiday season. Last year at this time, the Holiday eShopping Index showed shoppers visiting retail sites 348 point 3 million times during the week; this year, the number of shopping sessions grew to 462 point 5 million.

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Merriam-Webster Announces 2005 Words of the Year

Merriam-Webster has announced the year's top ten words and definitions as culled from its popular Web site Merriam-Webster OnLine. The 2005 Merriam- Webster's Words of the Year list is based on users' anonymous hits to the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary and Online Thesaurus. The number one word of the year, receiving the largest number of user requests by a wide margin, is "integrity," defined in Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Edition as: "firm adherence to a code, especially moral or artistic values: incorruptibility."

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Prince and Salma Hayek Create 'Te Amo Corazon'

Prince will premiere "Te Amo Corazon," which translates to "I Love You, Sweetheart," the first audio visual installment from "3121" the forthcoming album, across all of V-H-1's platforms: television, broadband and wireless. This unique sonic and visual event will premiere simultaneously on V-H-1, V-H- 1 Classic, V-H-UNO, Tempo, V-H-1 Soul as well as V-H-1.com through V-H-1's broadband channel Vspot. It will also premiere through V-H-1 Mobile through its partnership with Verizon's VCast service at 11p-m, Tuesday December 13. "Te Amo Corazon" represents the first ever multimedia, multiplatform, worldwide exclusive premiere of a music video. The gorgeous and decadent location in Marrakesh, Morroco provided the backdrop for this incredibly lush ballad and video featuring Prince and Mia Maestro directed by Salma Hayek.

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37% of Americans Are Concerned About Ability to Pay for Home Heating Bills

About three of every eight adult Americans are concerned about their ability to pay for heating their homes this winter, according to a nationwide survey released by the National Oilheat Research Alliance. And about half of Americans say they are concerned that higher energy costs will impact their budget for holiday shopping this year. NORA's survey also found that concern about the ability to pay for heating costs is highest in lower-income groups, with 64 percent of those earning less than 30-thousand dollars voicing concern. Concern is slightly higher in the Midwest, where 46 percent expressed concern, compared with 41 percent in the Northeast and 32 percent in both the South and the West. Forty-five percent of women raised concern about affording heating costs, compared with 29 percent of men.

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Editor's Note:

CareerBuilder.Com's Annual Survey Reveals This Year's Most Unusual Jobs From A to Z

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PRNewswire -- Dec. 13

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