111.   As the just-passed holiday season showed, the retail environment is brutal.

112.   As we move toward the holiday season, the house is filled with singing, dancing and eating.

113.   As we enter the holiday season, several NHL executives are learning the hard way that you can get burned for paying full retail.

114.   As the holiday season approaches, postal bags are swelling to Santa-size proportions with mail-order catalogs.

115.   As the holiday season marches on, children fill their wish lists with action figures, Furbies and the oh-so-popular Pokemon.

116.   As the holiday season skids into its final hours, the malls are looking tense.

117.   As the hurly-burly of another holiday shopping season intensifies, multitudes of other not-so-merry men know exactly how you feel.

118.   As the push to create the perfect holiday season increases, so does your sense of inadequacy.

119.   At least, we perhaps can face this holiday season with a bit more clarity.

120.   At Bandai, the year-end holiday season begins in September, when the company will unveil additions to the Power Rangers toy line and its nationally syndicated television series.