Between 1955 and 1975, the decades when television was being introduced into the Netherlands, reading on weekday evenings and weekends fell from five hours a week to 3.6, while television watching rose from about ten minutes a week to more than ten hours.
On weekday mornings, I read books about blogging.
My job is quite hectic most of the time, and I'm really not the type of person to stay indoors on a weekday night, pruning my orchid collection and reading a detective novel.
Before his graduation, he had been a cadet with the Seven Network in Perth for five years, reading the sports segment on the weekday evening news.
WEEKEND brunch is a luxurious, late-morning salve, a counterpoint to no-nonsense weekday breakfasts devoured on subway platforms or half-chewed while reading e-mail.
The Day Begins at 4 30 On weekdays, Mr. Norcross is up by 4 or 4 30 a.m., reading five or six newspapers and then leaving messages for colleagues.
But try Wall Street at midday on a weekday and try to read the state of the markets in the eyes of the lunching or, better yet, listen in for some potential inside information.
Weekdays are so hectic for New York State's chief judge, Jonathan Lippman, 65, that he rarely has time for reading the endless motions, briefs and memos that go with the job.
From 6.30am to 8pm on weekdays, the Radio 2 roster reads like a variety show curated by Alf Garnett, with back-to-back shows hosted by middle-aged white men.
I usually have to speed read the paper on weekday mornings.
