Holiday season rings in the phony absences
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'Tis the season for calling in sick, especially if you're not sick at all.
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With a weak back-to-school season behind them, US retailers are focused on the holidays and what steps they need to take to get consumers excited about shopping again.
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When it comes to spending the holiday season abroad, many foreigners are excited to participate in the customs of their host country.
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I heard the Salvation Army in Arizona is arming its bell ringers with credit card machines. That&#39;s a good thing because I am feeling awfully, and unintentionally, Scroogy this holiday season.
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A sleigh and eight tiny reindeer would have been a more reliable way to travel this holiday than the nation&#39;s airlines. While delays due to weather are unavoidable, it&#39;s hard to understand the numerous cancellations
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&#39;Tis the season of the holiday party, that sitcom land of egg nog, tipsy co-workers, and family stress. It&#39;s also a time when many stalk a new job.
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A calendar glitch made the back-to-school season look worse than it really was.
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The holiday season is a time of giving for love and friendship, but also because end-of-year tax planners encourage their clients to make deductible gifts to charities and personal gifts
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Santa isn't the only one busy around this season - mail carriers are putting in extra effort with two weeks left for holiday shopping.
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Holiday boycott is a mistake, say ordinary people anxious to feed families
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Retailers say they're having trouble meeting this year's Christmas forecasts. Not online, though.
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Public schools call it winter break. Shopping mall clerks say &quot;Happy Holidays&quot; as they hand over purchases. Store ads announce holiday sales.
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NEW YORK - The holiday selling season got off to a strong start this weekend, which means...actually, it may not mean anything at all.
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The holidays may be over, but the shopping hasn't stopped.
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Unlike Super Tuesday and Fat Tuesday, this particular holiday is positively under siege.
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By Bill Husted, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution  Dec. 10--You're lucky I'm not Santa Claus, because I know what you're  going to do wrong between now and Christmas.   I'm not talking about taking the last piece of blueberry pie or calling  in sick so you can shop.
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The holiday shopping season began with a surge in spending, but consumers faded by the long Thanksgiving weekendâs close and many retailers were facing decent but hardly impressive sales.