When it comes to shopping, Ms. van Herpen likes the flea market at Porte de Clignancourt.

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Exception EMS, based in Harris Road on the Porte Marsh Industrial Estate in Calne, employs 200 staff.

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This thing is the drifting king of your kid's preschool porte cochere.

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This time, when my taxi pulled up under the porte cochere, greeters were at the ready with cold towels, juice and the key to my room.

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First played in 1891 as a national tournament, it became an international event in 1925, and in 1928 moved to the Roland Garros facility at Porte d'Auteuil in Paris, where it remains today.

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Of the eight pieces on these two programs, only one is by Balanchine: "Variations pour une Porte et un Soupir, " an experimental duet that is possibly the most un-Balanchine work in the entire repertory.

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Entering a strange region, he would grapple with its history, rifling through the Encyclopedia Britannica and Meyers Konversationslexicon to trace the movements of tribes and the collision of cultures, producing in his books whole page-lists of Klephts and Armatoles, Kroumides and Koniarides, Phanariots of the Sublime Porte and boyars of Moldowallachia, until his readers swooned.

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