Doctors' surgeries close or curtail hours during the Christmas season, and hospitals are more short-staffed than usual.

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Nearly 87% of its flights during the Christmas season arrived on time.

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For the time being, however, the two companies have to concentrate on selling as many systems as they can during the Christmas season.

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Target will be counting on those loyal shoppers to spend during the Christmas season, which is when the company generates the most cash.

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The big push, he expects, will come during the Christmas season, thanks to all those people with a long gift list and so little time.

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Last year, the French knocked back a record 160m bottles of the stuff (two-thirds of worldwide sales), more than half of it during the Christmas season.

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During the Christmas season, it was an even-worse 47.1%.

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During the Christmas selling season we stayed at a nearby hotel and dedicated our lives to servicing the throngs that would visit the toy department.

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Bain says KB's creditors have only themselves to blame because they undermined the toy retailer by selling supercheap toys exclusively to Wal-Mart during the 2003 Christmas season.

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The overall macroeconomic environment is weak and the Christmas build season did not materialize as expected during the quarter.

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Now in 48 states, the company's 375 franchises will service some 51, 000 homes during this year's Christmas season.

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