Word: carpetting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...during the peak summer travel season, the Government is recording a surging number of consumer complaints, delayed flights, near midair collisions and air- traffic- control errors. The airlines are scrambling to improve conditions in the hope of easing growing indignation in Congress. -- Scandal dethrones the ZZZZ Best carpet- cleaning king...
...other of his host, Rumanian President Nicolae Ceausescu. On the tarmac below, workers roared a dual greeting -- "Ceau-Ses-Cu! Gor-Ba-Chev!" The Soviet leader, who has downplayed the personality cults favored by his predecessors in the Kremlin, was plainly appalled. Quickly traversing a vast expanse of red carpet to reach a microphone erected in expectation of a speech, Gorbachev said curtly, "Greetings, comrades." Then he strode away...
When business executives check into hotels these days, they quickly notice that the red carpet being rolled out is longer and plusher than ever before. Never has competition in the lodging industry been more fierce. As construction of new hotels has outstripped demand for rooms, average occupancy rates have dropped, from 70% in 1981 to a basement-level 65% last year. In | that tough climate, innkeepers are going all out to woo the customers who account for more than 70% of all hotel stays: business travelers. Many of the major hotel chains are giving corporate clients an office away from...
...Crimson isn't done with the carpet yet. Harvard's next game is tomorrow night at Boston College, played on the Eagles' artificial turf. The Crimson will return to natural-turf action Saturday, when the squad hosts the University of Pennsylvania at Ohiri Field...
...often seems as if the madman were behind the camera. Among the weirdo perspectives offered here, the best is an extended shot that follows a child driving a Big Wheel through corridor after corridor of the cavernous hotel, capturing the sight and sound of the toy vehicle passing over carpet and linoleum...