Word: weekend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...opening weekend included gondoliers from Venice, laser beams playing over the Empire State Building, and 1,000 schoolchildren, police and Australian lifeguards performing the whimsical A Day in the Life of Coney Island under the direction of Jacques d'Amboise. These items attracted the attention of the station-wagon set. Other performances were, aptly, more serious and even arcane...
...Horton was supposed to be serving time for murder in Massachusetts in April 1986 when he invaded a home in Oxon Hill, Md., raped a woman and stabbed her companion. Horton had not broken out of prison. He had walked away from it ten months earlier while on a weekend furlough, an experiment that has been a cornerstone of Governor Michael Dukakis' criminal-justice program...
Allen, who played third base and catcher, hit 290 with two home runs and 19 RBIs in his rookie season. The freshman was especially impressive in the team's first weekend of EIBL play. Against Brown and Yale that weekend, Allen went 10-for-12 with two homers and 10 RBIs to earn Player of the Week honors...
...French voters queued up at the ballot boxes on Sunday, it appeared that they were ready to oblige the President. Weekend polls gave the Socialists a projected margin of ten to 25 seats beyond the 289 needed for a majority. Although no one was ruling out the possibility of an upset by the conservatives, it appeared the Socialists were more successful at getting out the vote. For Premier Michel Rocard, a moderate Socialist whose government includes a few non-Socialists, a clear majority would mean that he could finally present the National Assembly with a legislative program intended to prepare...
Such tales finally forced the Missouri legislature to take this spring's action. But the onslaught of ATVs continues to worry local officials in Reynolds County, where the population of 7,500 increases as much as fivefold on holiday weekends. Even with the new law, says County Sheriff Gary Barton, he and his two deputies can hardly make a dent in the rampant ATV challenge. On Memorial Day weekend they wrote scores of tickets to ATV riders who trespassed on private property or were intoxicated. "Sometimes," says Barton, "it gets pretty hairy. You'll get there, and there will...