1.   Marsha can not reach a doctor during the four-day holiday weekend.

2.   Perhaps, this morning, there is something at the office he must look into before the long holiday weekend.

3.   Some outlying villages were still under several feet of water yesterday and weathermen warned of more to come in the holiday weekend.

4.   Students who lose one or two days tuition because of the Easter holiday weekend will receive a pro-rata reduction in tuition fees.

5.   The incident happened over a holiday weekend.

6.   The roads were jammed on the Friday before the holiday weekend.

7.   Gas prices bobbed up before the holiday weekend.

8.   The full effect will not be apparent until Tuesday, the first working day after the three day holiday weekend.

9.   The grim reminder that every holiday weekend inevitably results in a slew of highway fatalities.