Word: transportable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...simpler production. The Pacific Northwest Ballet in Seattle will feature Maurice Sendak's charming sets, and the Houston Ballet will move the family into a turn-of-the-century farmhouse and scale down their bourgeois comforts (presents will be homey food). Sleighs, as usual, will be the favorite transport, but a new conveyance is gaining favor: the Atlanta and Boston ballets and the Joffrey, in Iowa City and Los Angeles, are pumping up hot-air balloons for this year's fantasy trips through space...
Meanwhile, a committee of officials from the departments of State, Treasury and Defense, as well as the Agency for International Development, is identifying the neediest areas and the available resources of food and transport. The plan, whose details are still secret, is to send supplies directly to the areas thought to be the hardest hit, including cities in Siberia and the Urals, as well as Moscow and Leningrad...
...exile. Other carriers have helped too. In Dublin, Aer Lingus has arranged for Kuwait Airways to patch into its computerized worldwide reservation system. Another problem arose when Iraqi troops confiscated large supplies of Kuwait Airways tickets. The carrier will now use tickets with a new design. The International Air Transport Association is making sure that only tickets issued by Kuwait Airways are honored...
...announced, the Sun, Britain's leading tabloid, cautioned its readers, "It won't be long before the garlic-breathed bastilles will be here in droves once the Channel Tunnel is open." Deep in the British psyche there is a conservatism about ending the island-nation status. Labour Party transport spokesman John Prescott calls this attitude one of England's greatest problems. "We're going to have to be more reoriented toward Europe," he says. In spite of Britain's reservations, when the main breakthrough occurs on Dec. 1, men will meet, clasp hands and celebrate the fulfillment of a dream...
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