Upon boarding, the Youth Expedition students were given sketchbooks and were encouraged to spend at least ten minutes a day being creative.

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Upon boarding this floating hotel, the local Namibian staff greeted me with a welcome song, along with friendly smiles and a genuine warmth.

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Those whose profits depend upon speedy boarding have random boarding: we are reasonably safe in our assumption therefore that random boarding is the speediest because people whose profit depends upon it do so.

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"There are various means of delivering passenger safety instructions and abandon ship instructions, but we believe ... the existing international requirement that we provide this instruction within 24 hours can be bettered by doing it immediately upon (passenger) boarding, " said Michael Crye, executive vice president of Cruise Lines International Association.

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Gilmore has struck upon a career that embraces her passion for boarding, traveling the globe and riding waves in some spectacular locations.

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Peters, 64, has been one of the last people that about 20, 000 soldiers so far have seen before boarding the plane for the war zone -- and one of the first seen upon return.

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