Word: weekend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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through this weekend...
...WEEKEND'S RESULTS...
...Naaah, why bother? Director Herbert Ross and Writers Jim Cash, Jack Epps Jr. and A J Carothers know this picture exists only as a mobile Michael J. Fox poster, suitable for display on the bedroom walls of twelve-year-olds named Cindy. Secret earned nearly $7.8 million its first weekend, so the Fox conglomerate is thriving anyway. Now if Fox could only make movies worthy of his charm...
...barely 8 on a Saturday morning, one of the two weekend days each month that Cubans are required to show up for work. The downtown Havana bus stop was already crowded. A foreign visitor buying a newspaper at a nearby stand offered a dollar bill to the vendor, a wizened and near blind old man. He eagerly accepted it and carefully counted the change in Cuban centavos. Moments later, a policeman, obviously summoned by the crowd, was glaring sternly at the vendor. Dollar transactions are not allowed in Cuba, an onlooker explained. The old man ruefully handed the greenback...
...station bombing followed a killing spree that left at least 285 dead in six days. The carnage began over the weekend when Tamil rebels ambushed holiday travelers on a jungle road in Trincomalee district, gunning down 127 and injuring scores of others, including women and children. Almost all were Sinhalese. Three days later, Tamils fleeing a manhunt for the Trincomalee killers burst into homes in nearby Wanela, tied up 15 inhabitants and shot them dead...