But salt harvesting was rescued by an unlikely savior--a back-to-the-land movement in the late 1980s that swept the French intelligentsia, who found it fashionable to spend their weekends raking and skimming.
They now realize soccer's audience in the U.S. is made up of the urban millennials who grew up playing the sport and aren't yet spending their weekends on the sidelines of their kids' games.
Northern Ireland's three airports are preparing for one of their busiest weekends of the year.
Over the course of the past eight months, I recruited several other participants, most of them fellow Wolverines, to give up their own weekends to fly to Ann Arbor for this workshop.
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Every fall American "football widows" lose their husbands on weekends to the televised action on the football field.
And they've opened up their gym on the weekends, making an open gym for the families in their community.
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Many of these chefs say they wouldn't trade Fraternity Row for anything, what with their evenings, weekends and holidays off.
Single parents who keep spare rooms so they can have access rights to their children at weekends could fall foul of the under-occupancy rule he said.
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How do Silicon Valley companies get their employees to work weekends and to pull all-nighters?
Airlines say weekends are their slowest bookings days, and ticket-sellers say they are the most expensive.
Many corporations hold their galas on the weekends to nip dealing with this problem in the bud.
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Many middle class Chinese like to drive their parents around on weekends and some can afford to hire chauffeurs.
For example, parents tend to shop on weekends with their children so Abt electronics offers fresh-baked cookies and coffee.
He encouraged his wife, Jenny, to learn the game as well, and by the age of 2, their son was spending weekends at golf courses while his parents played.
Though full-time firefighters work a 42-hour week, much of it at night and at weekends, their four-days-on, four-days-off rota allows them, with permission, to supplement their salaries with a second job.
And we think that it won't be until robots are truly accessible -- 14-year-olds hacking on Wi-Fi-connected, computer-vision-capable robots in their garages on the weekends -- that innovation in robotics will really take off in earnest.
To put it another way, is it right that those who already feel guilty about their environmental impact and endeavour to minimise their waste have to stand by and watch their neighbours drive to Tesco in their 4x4 and fly off to Prague on long weekends - thus undermining all the their good work?
Their role around nightclubs at weekends is to help people who are potentially vulnerable in a non-confrontational way.
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Almost one third, 29%, get upset when their colleagues take multiple long weekends.
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In addition, airlines don't manage their inventory as actively on weekends, so if cheap seats sell on some flights, prices automatically jump higher.
Our citizens often need to work nights and weekends to get their jobs done and our men and women in uniform have no choice but to be on watch 24 hours a day to protect us.
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Even now, American Jews by the thousand spend weekends performing elective surgery on their automobiles.
Every member of the Peebles Homing Society in the Borders has lost at least half of their racing stock over the past two weekends.
Tablets are most used at home on weeknights in the living room, with Gartner noting that tablet users say they use their PCs 20 percent less on the weekends.
Through the long nights and weekends and the time away from their families, they have never lost sight of the critical importance of the work of the Fed for the economic well-being of all Americans.
The two natty gents go to clubs and the races together, and spend weekends chaffing, quarrelling, and pledging their affections.
Many courses drop their greens fees later in the day, especially on weekends.
The declaration would "include a statement of where members spend most of their time when the House is not sitting (including weekends), and in particular where they spend most nights".
Do we want bosses discouraging their employees from owning guns or enjoying mountain biking on the weekends?
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