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  • Carpet is an inappropriate floor covering in the worship space; it is acoustically counterproductive to the needs of the worshipers.

    Rip up those carpets! 2009

  • • Journey to the First Threshold on the Magic Carpet is not smooth [to the planet on the Nostromo; the ship can just about make it; repairs needed after landing].

    Movie Nostromo | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009

  • On the Red Carpet is looking for the ultimate Twilight fan,

    Twilight Lexicon » On The Red Carpet Twilight Fan Search 2010

  • Carpet is NOT child friendly - spills, drips, various kinds of accidents and you can never be too sure it's cleaned up properly - unless you spend too much money to have it professionally done.

    Creating A Feeling of Home 2007

  • Empire Carpet is OK but not great - we only used them to put in a saleable quality carpet since we're putting the townhouse up for sale this month. (

    mrissa: Before we go with the ball pit option mrissa 2010

  • * The Red Carpet is classic train wreck theater, as TV stars have to put up with Star Jones’ bug eyes asking insipid questions.

    Emmy Thoughts 2005

  • There was, therefore, never a time when that class of white men known as Carpet-baggers had absolute control of the State

    The Facts of Reconstruction John R. Lynch

  • The Republicans, influenced in part by considerations of party, but partly (it must in fairness be admitted) by the feeling that it was a duty to secure for Negro citizens the full enjoyment of the civil and political rights given them, under the constitutional amendments supported for years the so-called Carpet Bag Governments, that is to say, the rule of Northern adventurers who were kept in office throughout the South by the Negro vote.

    England's Case Against Home Rule Albert Venn Dicey 1878

  • Born in 1976 in Bratislava, where he studied at the art academy and lives and works today, Kvetán captured the 2008 NG 333 prize with a piece titled Carpet, a rolled-up, Oriental-style rug decked with blinking lights that emitted Asian-sounding music.

    The Prague Post For the Post 2010

  • Watch out, kids will be getting "Carpet" knit by number kits soon, direct from India.

    alberta child labour continued... daveberta 2005

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