11.   Similar unwanted surprises have arrived in households across the nation in recent days, as a parade of companies marched out plans for tens of thousands of job cuts.

12.   The parade marched through the streets of the capital, past the White House before stopping at Freedom Place.

13.   The result is the dreaded filibuster, in which a parade of lawmakers march to the microphone for hours or even days.

14.   There was fresh rioting early Saturday after rival band parades marched through the town of Omagh in County Fermanagh.

15.   A helicopter buzzed overhead during the half hour that the parade marched around the white walls of the compound before the gunfire.