1.   He postponed his trip at the eleventh hour.

2.   And because of the current violence, an observation team from the IMF that was to have gone to Indonesia this month has postponed its trip.

3.   Annan Wednesday night postponed a trip to Portugal, where he was planning to meet East Timorese leaders, to attend the Security Council session on Thursday.

4.   Barak planned to meet Clinton in Washington last week but postponed the trip because of the Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon and outbreaks of violence in Palestinian territories.

5.   Bill Moormann and his friends then knew they had to postpone the trip for a few hours.

6.   A more telling sign is that in the absence of an agreement, NATO Secretary-General George Robertson has postponed a trip to Skopje scheduled for Thursday.

7.   A scheduling conflict in the Thomas Everett camp caused the safety to postpone his trip to Austin for a physical for a day.

8.   A. The best advice, according to the State Deparment, is to postpone your trip altogether.

9.   Administration officials said the threat was serious enough to force the U.S. ambassador to Macedonia, Christopher Hill, to postpone a trip to Tirana planned for Friday.

10.   Air travel also should be safe, but since no one can make an absolute promise, some people may want to consider postponing optional trips during the holidays.