Word: carpetting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fifth Christmas season, my parent gave me a passport into this land--a ticket to New York's Metropolitan ballet company production of the classic. For five years I returned, savoring every step of the experience from the glint of the gilded chandeliers to the hush of a carpet against Mary-Janed feet...
...really neat," Agostini says. "They came in a limousine, rolled out the red carpet, and the crowd just went crazy. There was a justice of the peace there, and they had a really nice ceremony...
Gorbachev's popularity in the United States has gained so much that he could probably blow away the Democratic presidential field in any election or debate. But before Americans roll out the red carpet, they should snap out of the charismatic spell he has cast and look realisticly at a Soviet leader who is following the policies of his predecessors...
Cornell (3-1 ECAC, 1-0 Ivy, 4-1 overall) also finds itself tied for third in the league. And with the help of the now-famous antics of Lynah Rink's fans, the Big Red have a big, red carpet all rolled out for the Crimson...
...alarming cases have since surfaced. Earlier this month two Japanese businessmen and two Hungarian diplomats were indicted in Asheville, N.C., and charged with diverting to Hungary an advanced U.S. laser trimming system used to manufacture semiconductors. The product had been shipped from Charlotte, N.C., to Tokyo as an ordinary "carpet trimmer." From there it was smuggled to Budapest as part of a diplomat's "household goods." The Hungarians, according to the indictment, paid the Japanese $380,000 for their trouble...