1.   Sometimes the streets are Decorated with flower petals, although this custom is dying out.

2.   Causing more car accidents, many streets are decorated with World Cup murals, painted in slippery, oil-based paint.

3.   Fireworks exploded over Amman, and streets were decorated with pennants and banners and crowded with hundreds of thousands of people.

4.   Palestinian flags and pictures of PLO leader Yasser Arafat decorated the streets.

5.   Absent were posters of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat or national flags decorating the streets.

6.   Banners with messages of welcome and fringed streamers decorated the streets.

7.   Before autonomy, streets were decorated with banners honoring martyrs killed in clashes with Israel.

8.   Banners with messages of welcome and fringed streamers in the colors of the Indian flag decorated the streets.

9.   But president of the Outbound Travel Agents Association Ronnie Ho Pak-ting said decorating the streets would be of little help in attracting tourists.

10.   During the Christmas season, Bethlehem is without colorful chains of lights and streamers decorating the streets.