Word: weekend
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Intricate court reasoning can be hard to defend in a 30-second television commercial, however, and Bird has scarcely tried. On Labor Day weekend, with seven death-penalty cases coming up for argument before her court, she began airing a $250,000 series of campaign commercials in which capital punishment is never mentioned. Instead, in language she wrote herself, she intones from a setting that resembles a law office, "Judges with a backbone are a California tradition worth keeping." An admirable sentiment but one unlikely to disarm her opponents...
...Ramstein crash sent the nation into mourning, but also created a furious debate over the use of the Frecce Tricolori in air shows. The Italian air force restricted future appearances to nonaerobatic flyovers at military functions. Officials in Fribourg, Switzerland, quietly disinvited the Italians to an air show this weekend...
...National Football League season is under way and the local favorites, the New England Patriots, are off to a great start following their 28-3 demolition of the New York Jets in a driving rainstorm last weekend...
Dukakis, spending the weekend in Boston, accused several of the vice president's closest aides of using the White House as a "back door for foreign lobbyists" and declared that "in a Dukakis White House, the staff will pledge allegiance to only one flag--Old Glory...
...nominee, elated by an eight-point lead over Dukakis in public opinion polls, relaxed at his Washington home this weekend before leaving tomorrow for appearances in New Jersey, Illinois, Missouri, California and Ohio...