• "I've always kept them ready to go at a moment's notice, " she said, adding that she had just put her jewelry in a pillowcase and packed up pajamas, slippers, a small Bose stereo, a collection of gospel and jazz CDs and 20 of her favorite outfits.

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  • Who knows, you might walk away with a pair of velveteen slippers.

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  • The glut of Will and Kate products being produced by Woolworths include dolls, spoons, slippers, a mobile phone, photo album, car flags, a mouse mat, buntings, wine glasses, thimbles, mugs, tupperware and of course plates.

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  • These salon shoes, however, look practically quaint when compared to Iris van Herpen's snub-nosed bondage booty or Mr. Tatehana's aerodynamic platforms, which have no heel at all and look like slippers for a space alien.

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  • She's part of UNIQLO's new fall marketing campaign and has collaborated with several designers on limited runs of clothing and accessories, from Gryphon trench coats and Del Toro smoking slippers to a jewelry line with Dannijo bearing her initials.

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  • He was given four sheets, four towels, a blanket, a bedroll, a toothbrush, toilet paper, a tall clear plastic cup, a bar of soap, seven white T-shirts, seven pairs of boxer shorts, seven pairs of socks, plastic slippers, a pad of paper, and a ballpoint pen.

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  • There are mosquito nets and cloth nappies, tea, slippers and even a vegetable grater.

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  • To read the account of the banking crisis of 1931 is to read a kind of analogue, pipe and slippers version of what could happen if we get another Lehman this time around, with a combination of sovereign and banking debt crisis.

    BBC: Thinking outside the 1930s box

  • This made us feel a little greedy and high-maintenance. (Hilton says it is planning to tweak the app to allow guests to make multiple requests at once.) Maybe Conrad read our avaricious mind, because 10 minutes later, an employee arrived bearing two dental kits, two pairs of slippers, two robes and a toiletry kit (with shampoo, conditioner, lotion and soaps) from Shanghai Tang, a luxury Chinese retailer.

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  • They find the flexibility refreshing and get a kick out of taking meetings in their slippers.

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  • "It's not about fluffy slippers and fluffy robes, and a full day at the spa, " Shiri Sarfati, Repechage's executive vice president, explained.

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  • Her uniform: everyday clothes, plus a pair of fluffy white-and-blue slippers shaped like airplanes.

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  • Rather, think Big Thoughts about the future of Europe while wearing slippers, wrapped up in blankets in a remote log cabin.

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  • Selling slippers with Hindu symbols created trouble for a third London-based retailer.

    BBC: NEWS | South Asia | Harrods apology over Hindu bikinis

  • The captain's wife, a Greenlander and strict enforcer of the boat's slippers-only policy, bakes dense loaves nightly.

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  • Already a queen of branding, Polizzi has more deals for her own fashion and beauty lines than the rest of the cast: indoor and sunless tanning, slippers, sunglasses, perfume, jewelry and a maternity line on the way.

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  • Cinderella Notwithstanding, traveling by coach isn't all glass slippers and romance--as we discovered during a horse-drawn transit of the Alps this June.

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  • Another addition to the jockey wardrobe at White Turf is an oversized pair of fleecy slippers which would look less out of place on a circus clown -- vital footwear to cover riding boots while hanging around on a frozen lake before the race.

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  • Strunk and White could be associated with what some readers saw as the pipe-and-slippers tone of The New Yorker, where White was a celebrated contributor for decades.

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  • That's the right strategy, says Donna Quadri, a professor of hospitality and tourism at NYU. She said touches like slippers for Asian travellers or tea for British visitors are nice, but you don't want to be something you're not.

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  • Mr. Botha said female slippers and an overnight bag were found in the bedroom along with a safe containing ammunition that Mr. Pistorius wasn't registered to own.

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  • Haggle over curly-toed Aladdin slippers, colourful textiles and cheap souvenirs then wander down Hindi Lane - a narrow, crowded alleyway lined with garlands of marigolds and Hindu religious paraphernalia.

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  • " Elsewhere on Broadway, Cinderella may have her expensive slippers, but it's likely she'd really love to snag a pair of what's on offer at "Kinky Boots.

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  • Today Gordon is a raging uranium bull, and he also likes the Pickerington, Ohio-based maker of Dearforms slippers, R.

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  • Among the centrepieces will be Dorothy's ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz, acquired on behalf of the museum - with the help of a consortium including Leonardo DiCaprio and Steven Spielberg - earlier this year, according to industry website Deadline.

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