101.   Others have repeatedly criticized his overseas trips as unnecessary and expensive.

102.   Palestinians dismissed the Powell trip as unproductive.

103.   Participants in the Sarajevo roundtable hailed his trip as a gesture that could strengthen hopes for peace.

104.   Plans also call for Alarcon to go on the trip as an adviser.

105.   A Kansas Republican senator canceled a ski weekend for campaign contributors after a private group criticized the trip as offering special access to wealthy supporters.

106.   A narrow winner over Walesa in November elections, Kwasniewski proved critics wrong by choosing Germany instead of Russia for his first foreign trip as president.

107.   Abbadi said the legislators were making the trip as private citizens, not as representatives of the Jordanian government or Parliament.

108.   AS the year draws to an end, many companies either hold a get together for their employees or send everyone off on a company trip as a treat.

109.   Baesler made the trip as a member of the bipartisan National Security Caucus, which is now the largest Congressional member organization on Capitol Hill.

110.   Beijing saw that trip as evidence Taiwan was abandoning the goal of reunification with the mainland.