We expect the trend to continue throughout the holidays season.
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Whitman says when they were at eBay, they had to use EMC and Cisco, and had to build for peak season, the holidays.
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Looking ahead, demand for TV panels is expected to grow in the next quarter as TV makers prepare for the end-of-year high-demand season and the Chinese National Day holidays.
Party dresses are in demand for the holidays and for prom season.
James Gilbert, spokesman for East Lindsey District Council, said every year they cleared sand ready for the Easter holidays and start of the tourist season but this year had been more difficult.
Tis the season to get creative while still remaining festive and offering up an alternative way to celebrate the holidays with everyone included.
British Retail Consortium director general Stephen Robertson told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the Easter holidays were good for shops, representing the start of the season for DIY and garden centres.
Prices tend to rise into year-end due to a number of gift-giving holidays around the world, starting with the so-called wedding season in India and continuing through to the Chinese New Year holiday early in the following year.
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This is a season of homecomings, and military families across America are being reunited for the holidays.
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There is another reason to wear black over the holidays: for those of us who look upon the approach of the festive season with the same level of doom-laden reserve that we would normally muster for a root canal, black seems entirely appropriate.
The trend has emerged even more strongly during the holidays with holiday online sales expanding at a rate of 15% whereas retail growth for the season is expected to linger around 3-4%.
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Retailers are quite possibly going to be in for a severe letdown this holiday season, as a majority of female consumers have indicated that they intend to spend less on the holidays in 2012 than they did in 2011.
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And because many in the hospitality business spend the holidays away from their own families to be at work and share in a collective resentment of the season.
But the holidays force us to either return to painful family interactions or to fully own our isolation and spend the season alone.
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