Word: carpetting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kalait is a collection of smashed huts, thorn trees and wrecked vehicles. The army's divisional headquarters is a green canvas tent captured from the Libyans. Inside, sitting with legs crossed on a carpet, is the general, Abdul Raman Berdabali, 47, looking like a bird of prey. "Oh, yes," he says, pointing to a heap of seven land mines sitting next to his sleeping mat, "there are plenty of mines about. They are plastic, which makes them hard to detect." Under his watchful eye, everyone devours trays of boiled mutton covered with flies. Again, all eat together. "Even Camarade...
...were those 97 parents given the red carpet treatment by President Bok and University hall brass two weekends ago? Organizers said they were just showing Harvard off to people without any previous use to the school. But the real reason, according to sources, is to tap a new and potentially lucrative non-alumni source of fundraising--the nouveau riche parent...
Software is the magic carpet to the future...
While at Harvard, Oppens also attended a dinner in her honor with Radcliffe President Matima S. Horner. "She's getting the red-carpet treatment," Weinfeld said...
...Halevy: "They rolled up to the Awali River in cars and trucks of every age and description. The vehicles were crammed with children, mothers and grandmothers and piled high with blankets, mattresses, ancient refrigerators, rusty sewing machines and, here and there, a new color TV or even a Persian carpet. On a single day last week some 4,000 to 6,000 refugees crossed the Awali, rumbling over a bridge and through an Israeli checkpoint at the rate of three cars or trucks a minute from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Most of the refugees were silent; the only consistent...