"It could actually make a noticeable difference to accident statistics [if just women let off fireworks] – but the most important thing is not to use fireworks recklessly," Mr Stokkeland told Norwegian news service NRK.
The police made a final appeal to the crowd not to use fireworks to welcome the teams or to celebrate the scoring of a goal.
Kaufman and Hart had been on firmer ground working within the constraints of their 1936 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, "You Can't Take It with You," though its single set and nineteen actors managed to accommodate two families, I.R.S. and F.B.I. men, a black servant and her beau, a White Russian dance teacher, and a depraved actress, not to mention fireworks, ballet, and xylophone solos.
Be careful not to drop fireworks.
"This won't lead to fireworks on Potsdamer Platz," the rebuilt center of a reunified Berlin.
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced the change of venue during his annual pre-Independence Day news conference warning people not to play with fireworks.
But Steve Galloway, the council leader, explained in an interview that a fireworks display would be prohibitively expensive — perhaps $200,000 or more, what with crowd control, temporary lighting, crash barriers and the like, not to mention the fireworks themselves.
Events for New Year's Eve, such as children's parties, have been cancelled in the city, while residents have been asked not to set off fireworks.
In "How to Be Good," by contrast, Hornby seems to be warning the reader not to expect too many fireworks from his North London Post-Thatcher EveryYuppie narrator.
It is hard, despite the glitter and fireworks, not to see Burj Khalifa as a monument to Dubai's burst real estate bubble and a caution against much of the world's overreach during the last few years.
