So, when I landed an internship, albeit at a tiny salary, at a New York newspaper, I was thrilled.
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Imagine my surprise when I landed up in Delhi last week from Kochi and found a vast, clean, totally modern airport.
"When I landed my first big one, some chemical reaction went off inside of me and I knew this would be my thing, " he says of kayak fishing.
When I landed a job in a top public relations firm after my college graduation, I thought the toughest part of my entry into the business world was over.
When I landed, my sister-in-law was able to flick through the photos of her niece and nephew on the touchscreen, a feature that is cool, to be sure, but also supremely useful.
"I banged out a few ideas when I landed in Singapore, I sent emails to about 10 people sharing my ideas and when I got to Sydney eight hours later they had all reacted and all very favorably, " recalled Bakker.
There is no denying the progress that the Afghan people have made in recent years -- in education, in health care and economic development, as I saw in the lights across Kabul when I landed -- lights that would not have been visible just a few years earlier.
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The in flight-wifi with T-Mobile works over water (as opposed to the GoGo system used on TransCon flights), and I was not only able to stay on top of the story, but be able to work on a new editorial article with a good few hours of lead time (compared to waiting and hearing about the news when I landed).
He was 9 when we moved to the city after I landed my first magazine job.
When I came to this country from Romania, I first landed in Detroit.
When a letter landed on my desk addressed to the BBC Technical Correspondent, I opened it with care.
So when a review copy of Top Spin 4 recently landed on my desk, I greeted it with mixed emotions.
My teacher was a deeply tanned fellow named Aryeh, who told me he one day hoped to compete for the Israeli Olympic team. (I thought of him four years later, when Gal Fridman's Athens windsurfing victory landed Israel its first-ever Olympic gold).
When a copy of the New York Review Books edition of "Anatomy" first landed in my mailbox, I sighed at its heft, greeting it as a mountain to climb rather than a journey to enjoy.
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