It's the process: wiping off the countertops, taking things out of the cupboard, chopping, mixing and filling the house with good smells.

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Both Shia and Sunni voters largely backed respective Islamist parties, whose influence the king then diluted by filling the upper house of parliament, whose seats he appoints, with loyalist liberals, including a Christian and a Jew.

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They could be watching TV in their house, filling out the form and mailing it back out.

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Harriet Miers, the president's former White House counsel, exploring with high-ranking officials of the Justice Department, the removal of all federal prosecutors so that the White House could have a free hand filling those ranks with nothing but political loyalists.

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This Latinisation is driving up house prices, creating new businesses and filling once-empty streets with chattering, hustling people.

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From any room in the house or from a variety of devices, the inMotion Air delivers audio autonomy providing room-filling sound up to 100 yards (300 feet) away with unrivaled clarity.

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One house whose style of wines reflects the terroir is Bollinger, which makes champagne of a mouth-filling, yeasty, firm character with tremendous depth.

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