Word: carpetting
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...Harvard fails to retain students who have been accepted, since it does not pay for air tickets and roll out the red carpet for prospective Black students...
...circus; it conjures up nothing more magical than slapstick and animal odors. The grand, ethereal Cirque du Soleil is really primal theater -- an age-old blend of music and motion. The weirdly soothing, polylingual background score, which could be elevator music at a harmonious U.N., rolls out a verdant carpet of sound for all the pretty beasts to strut on. At every moment, in every corner of the Cirque world, stagecraft approaches genial witchcraft. It's an out-of-Broadway experience...
...diversity" avoids this point in its effort to blame Harvard's atmosphere for discouraging minority students and professors from setting their feet on campus. Granted, perhaps Harvard could be more welcoming toward minorities (though I can't imagine how much more, short of literally rolling out the red carpet). But even Dean Archie Epps has said publicly that Harvard's administration and academic departments can only marginally affect the numbers of minority faculty hired in the near future...
Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt scans his vast office, then gazes down at the blue Republican carpet. He intends to tear the rug out, for it conceals a fine walnut floor installed during New Deal days by his conservationist hero, Harold Ickes. Not even the floor covering is beyond the scrutiny of Babbitt as he carries out vast changes in the Interior Department and in the government's philosophy toward its public lands. Where conservatives James Watt and Manuel Lujan once presided, Babbitt now speaks as if he were in a vanguard of liberators. "There has been an ideological war going...
...amounts spent on marginal health-care technology to preserve lives already at their tail end was a fruitless attempt to raise our collective quality of life. American medical-research institutions, he said, are trying to do to natural death what the Victorians did to sex--sweep it under the carpet and pretend that it doesn't exist...