41.   Actors and director must do most of the work of sustaining interest in the goings-on in the family farmhouse during a tense holiday weekend.

42.   After that, over the holiday weekend, Walker claimed he made up his mind not to re-hire Karl.

43.   After weeks of barely talking to each other, GM and UAW negotiators began bargaining in earnest on Friday and talked through the holiday weekend.

44.   Aides to Gov. George Pataki of New York and the state Department of Environmental Conservation could not be reached over the holiday weekend.

45.   Alcohol-related deaths tend to rise sharply during the Thanksgiving holiday weekend.

46.   Bush, who opted to concentrate on the close Michigan contest instead of campaigning over the holiday weekend in Arizona.

47.   Bush interrupted his holiday weekend and returned to the White House from Camp David to praise passage of the tax cuts.

48.   But because this is a holiday weekend, Wladika said the National Hockey League requested a decision Thursday.

49.   But anecdotal evidence suggested Monday that public unease about the spread of the virus was growing as people returned to the city from the holiday weekend.

50.   But he said the remarks by the official on Monday had not been adequately examined by her superiors because of the holiday weekend.