In the past, new fashions have appeared almost exclusively through a “top-down” method, where fashion designers publish their catwalk collections and these new styles slowly take hold. I walked on the podium to the big shed where we were staying. Instead of a traditional track, Lagerfeld had the Grand Palais installed as an artificial city. Hodges, 46, travelled to several villages aboard a six-seater plane to vaccinate medical staff and the elderly they meet on the runway. When he stopped on a gravel road, a male-looking woman approached the car door. His fingers reached the ornamental grid and he was able to pull himself up and down on the narrow track. The engineer saw a small door in front of him at the top of the stairs and behind it a spiral track leading upwards. This stopped the engine from turning on and the pilots safely slid the spacecraft towards the runway. A runway can be for an airplane or a mannequin. It`s the strip of land that an airplane uses to take off and land, or a narrow platform that uses a model to show the latest modes.

On the upper part of the runway, he had built a few steps, which allowed him to attract the unwary far enough to ensure a deadly descent. It looks a bit like the trail on which ducks ascend a steep shore from their duck pond; hence one of its names. Find out which words work together and create more natural English with the Oxford Collocations Dictionary app. As they passed the track, bullets sprang from the tall grass and pierced a fuel tank. Twice in the past two weeks, this meant hitting a plane on the runway to pick up sick passengers who might be infected. Or fast fashion chains like Zara and H&M, which produce imitations of catwalks. Washington-area airport officials said the runways had been pre-treated and were open. This has helped Synopsys “rapidly grow its IP business” and is an “important avenue for multi-year growth,” she suggests. An aircraft needs a runway of a certain length to reach enough speed to take off, and it also needs a long enough runway when it lands to slow down and stop safely. Even the shortest runways are more than 800 feet long — and the world`s longest runway at Edwards Air Force Base in California is nearly 40,000 feet long.

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