Word: weekdays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Since September, a shuttle has been arriving at Harvard's northerly Houses weekday mornings by 5:30 a.m. to take athletes from the Quad to the athletic facilities...
Walk through the doors of Warehouse No. 2 at 701 East 37th Street in Wichita, Kans., on a weekday morning, and you will swear you have entered a school. Parent sign-up sheets festoon the walls. A small library offers comfy chairs and a plentiful supply of magazines. Basketballs bounce in the distance, and a poster next to the weight room illustrates the "6 S's of Fitness" (strength, stamina, speed, suppleness, skill, spirit). The kids racing down the linoleum hallway take Spanish, art, p.e. and government here. They hit baseballs from the pitching machine, and they splash...
...reason can be seen at 3:15 on a sunny weekday afternoon at KidsWorld, a two-acre Toys "R" Us superstore in Elizabeth, N.J. There are barely a dozen cars in the parking lot. The aisles inside the store are spacious, well lighted--and empty. A row of 20 cash registers stands idle while a lone clerk in a red apron and braids rings up a diaper sale for Kim Essen, 29, and daughters Samantha, 21 months, and Alana, 6 months. As Kim wheels her cart out of the store, she turns and says, "I like shopping here because...
...Harvard Square stop on a recent weekday afternoon, the number one has several empty blue vinyl seats...
...apartment. In practice, doormen often daydream and forget who has just returned. While I generally can keep track of everyone on the weekends (when there is only a trickle of people entering or leaving at any time), I can get lost in the incessant comings and goings on weekday mornings and afternoons. Forgetting who has just come in, I have tried to deduce a person's identity from the elevator camera's glimpse at the top of his head. While bald men have a reasonably good chance of being sent to the right floor, others have little luck. And should...