Under Mehdi, MSN responded to AOL's "carpet bombing"--mailing out millions of discs offering free trials--by landing prime real estate at the retail level.

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If you did sign up for the mailing list you've undoubtedly been forced to install a spam filter to protect your inbox from carpet bombing.

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Few buildings from previous eras survived the twin disasters of the 20th century -- the Great Kanto Earthquake and the U.S. carpet bombing of World War II.

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Nor are the studios likely to tinker much with their carpet-bombing approach to marketing big films.

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President Barack Obama is carpet-bombing the states of Colorado and Arizona with love over the next few days on a multi-town tour.

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Polls show that Obama currently has the upper hand, thanks in part to a carpet-bombing campaign of negative attack ads whose questionable charges demonstrate a complete disregard for facts and reason.

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If the drug works as expected, Morrow says, it will be possible to sell it without "carpet-bombing" salespeople into every doctor's office as a big pharmaceutical company with a glut of sales reps might.

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This brings us to the third point: Why did Romney buy the election by carpet-bombing his opponents with negative ads and pretending for the first time in his political life to be "severely conservative"?

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But by the time Coca-Cola was finished carpet-bombing the planet with its vision of Santa Claus, there was no doubt what Santa Claus looked like: He looked like Haddon Sundbloom, who used himself as a model for many of his later Coca-Cola paintings.

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