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Article: COLUMN: Here's what makes holiday season in America
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- November 18, 2004
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Matthew Skuya
University Wire
11-18-2004
(Iowa State Daily) (U-WIRE) AMES, Iowa -- With the elections over and the semester almost done, many of us turn our attention to the holiday season. It may have been easy to overlook with so much energy going into the campaign, but holiday displays started to pop up about a month ago. It seems that every year retailers scramble to be the first out with their Christmas displays, resulting in a holiday season that now includes Halloween and Thanksgiving.
It's also true that often times you'll see an article criticizing the fact that retailers are so quick to put up holiday specials when we haven't even gotten through Halloween. Not me. I'm more of the ...