1.   Almost everyone had the day off because of the festival, but here and there several work crews got in a few hours before the parade came through.

2.   Ever wonder where, in a tickerless financial world, all that paper for ticker tape parades come from?

3.   It looked like they were waiting for a parade to come.

4.   Music was everywhere, blaring from shiny, sleek automobiles lined bumper to bumper both ways on the street, like a parade coming from both directions.

5.   The parade came to a standstill because the float in front of Glenn caught fire.

6.   The parade came to be viewed as an annual celebration of the creative, anything-goes spirit of the Village.

7.   The parade has come and gone as often as the tide.

8.   Then came the parade of athletes, a much less formal entrance than in the Opening Ceremony.

9.   These are intended to show how the parade has come to function as a kind of political statement.

10.   But from their shop came a parade of superhigh technology aircraft that still spy on the world.