Use disappointments over gifts to help your child practice empathy.

Case in point: the latest dust-up over potentially improper gifts of "soft money" by foreign citizens and companies to the Democratic Party.

He said the city's Conflict of Interest Board, which has jurisdiction over gifts to officials, "was perhaps the best agency to develop rules."

Among couples having interpersonal difficulties, underlying relationship problems can also show up as a conflict over gifts.

Some worried that the policy, by favoring letters over gifts and in the very next breath stating an actual dollar amount, might send mixed signals.

And once again, the matter is over gifts and the degree to which he disclosed them.

(2) Christmas Day, well, everybody be so choked up over gifts and everything, they don't be too hungry.

"Problems in the marriage over money and control often surface in arguments over gifts."

Needs must, and actually I'm looking forward to not stressing over gifts and panicking about the budget.

In 1999, for instance, a scandal arose over gifts given by the Philip Morris tobacco company to lawmakers.