But the highlight of each and every week was Wednesday afternoon, when, after school, I would pull the curled up Sports Illustrated out of the mailbox.
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Twice in one afternoon this week, I had well-heeled oil businessmen invoke the logic of Willie Sutton, the legendary bank robber.
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Indeed, you can often snag tickets for less than 10 bucks if you're traveling early in the week or in the afternoon.
Last week I spent the afternoon with Justin Chang, third generation member of the Ascot Chang family, the finest shirt maker in Asia and one of the best in the world.
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The Nasdaq composite index rose to a seven-week high late Wednesday afternoon after promising forecasts in the wireless and software sectors gave investors reason to bet that profits at technology companies will rebound next year.
Go to the movies in the middle of the afternoon on a week day.
This is likely to continue this week at least into Thursday afternoon when the FOMC announces its latest monetary policy decisions.
Earlier this week the council staged a sports afternoon for delegates who were also given guided tours of nearby Gower.
On a drizzly afternoon during the first week of competition, the Olympic Park bike-parking lot had about 50 bikes locked up with room for at least a thousand more.
Napolitano said at a news conference Tuesday afternoon that during this week's talks he will first attempt to persuade leaders to support Pierluigi Bersani of the center-left Partito Democratico as prime minister.
But a week on from that largely forgettable Tuesday afternoon, there was at last some cause for optimism.
After fighting off calls for his head, with a brilliant century for Western Australia last week, he played with authority all afternoon.
Whether Sean Quinn was the proper target for retribution is a subject of intense controversy even as the native of County Fermanagh (Northern Ireland) is being shifted this afternoon for a nine-week sentence with the common criminals in Mountjoy jail outside Dublin.
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Major U.S. stock indexes surged on Friday afternoon en route to ending the week at their highest levels of the past five days.
Important U.S. economic data is on tap to close out the week, including the FOMC minutes on Thursday afternoon and the employment report on Friday morning.
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The car had been stolen a week before the attempted burglary, which happened Tuesday afternoon.
The U.S. dollar index was trading near steady Wednesday afternoon and did hit a fresh three-week low overnight.
Longer-dated October contract call options are also popular on Visa this afternoon as traders position for fresh 52-week highs in the weeks ahead.
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The U.S. Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) is slated for a two-day meeting this week, with an announcement and press conference on Wednesday afternoon.
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Tokyo's Nikkei average ended the morning down 2.19 percent at 8, 377.75, a three-week low, though it is recovering slightly as the afternoon sets off.
The U.S. dollar index was trading slightly lower Wednesday afternoon but did hit a fresh four-week high in the early going, on more short covering.
Anyway, here's what Bill made for dinner one week after bringing home his cookbook, having waited until an afternoon when I was gone so that he could conduct a stealth sortie into the kitchen: Oven-Roasted Tri-Tip.
The US stock market had a sharp two-day slide last week, and most of the major averages made their lows Thursday afternoon before turning higher into the close.
Instead, Mr Landry has been reborn as a wise and smiling grandfather, who is promising a four-day week for hard-pressed young parents while himself unashamedly taking an afternoon nap in what has been called the Camomile Campaign.
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Bridget Walker, 69, from Norwich, died in hospital last week after being involved in the accident on the A47 at Wendling during the afternoon.
Zahid Hasan, commanding officer of Border Guards' 42 Battalion in Teknaf, on Bangladesh's southeastern tip, said 21 bodies were recovered Thursday afternoon from the sea, apparently from an accident earlier in the week when several boats carrying more than 100 Rohingyas trying to flee the cyclone had capsized.
Carvell, who had spent the majority of the afternoon being booed by his own fans after announcing earlier in the week that he wished to reverse his decision to sign a new three-year deal with the club, went over from close range and Berrigan's dart from dummy-half gave the Airlie Birds hope.
Sergio Garcia gets the afternoon session under way with the tournament's first birdie of the week at the par-four first, reducing Els' lead to two.
The week began with 281 spellers and was whittled down to 42 for the semifinals Thursday afternoon and 11 for the prime-time finals, with spellers advancing based on a formula that combined their scores from computerized spelling and vocabulary tests with their performance in onstage rounds.
This week, the FOMC starts its meeting on Tuesday, with their announcement following on Wednesday afternoon.
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