The following year, 1982, they bought a warehouse, put in some manufacturing equipment and began making their own bedroom sets.

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The game show hosts were like Santa Claus -- rewarding the "nice" contestants with cash, cars and bedroom sets, while punishing the "naughty" players with zonks, whammies and lifetime supplies of Turtle Wax and Rice-a-Roni.

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One chain, Lifestyle's Home Centre, which is controlled by Dubai's Landmark Group, has 12 home-furnishing superstores across India that sell most of the same items as IKEA, including sofas, bedroom sets, and kitchen and bathroom items.

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We have Roku boxes on our TVs to stream content in high definition on our big living room TV or the smaller sets in our exercise room and bedroom.

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