1.   We, therefore, save most personal visiting for after-work hours or for social weekend gatherings.

2.   For the skaters, the weekend gathering is a small oval of utopia where class and race matter less than skating technique and graceful motion.

3.   Indeed, the event here drew more presidential contenders than a competing gathering this weekend in Atlantic City, N.J., called the Northeast Republican Leadership Conference.

4.   Now young African-Americans are preparing to stage their own mass gatherings Labor Day weekend.

5.   The Carnegie commission paid for the first weekend gathering, in Westchester County, N.Y., but the ministers have paid their own way subsequently.

6.   The high price of oil will also be an important topic at a gathering this weekend of finance ministers of the International Monetary Fund in Prague.

7.   The room is as animated as the weekend family gatherings I remember.

8.   The weekend gathering was attended by several hundred people, including active-duty and retired law-enforcement agents, government officials said.

9.   Belgian Finance Minister Didier Reynders, the host of the weekend EU gathering, met with union representatives after the march.

10.   But the weekend gathering is occurring at a sensitive time.