In a "busy" environment, I will eventually go into sensory overload and my mind will go blank.

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Or my satellite service from Sirius, which always seems to go blank at the exact moment when Howard is about to say something funny.

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As he begins to backtrack, she jolts upright, stares back in shock, then in mock shock, shifting in subtle increments until she smiles, lets her face go blank again, and leans back into his arms with relaxed panic, a twenty-sided facial expression that should earn Lauren Graham a special Emmy.

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Blank can go around that wall by heading in new directions, such as the smaller Villager's Hardware.

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Obama who skipped the vote while campaigning in New Hampshire has said it gave President Bush a "blank check" to go to war against Iran.

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Similarly, dragging to the right takes you back to the previous menu, or you can drag to a blank area and let go to jump back to the main menu.

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Leave column E blank on all but the 4 days a year that the ETF does not go ex-dividend.

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Everywhere you go, small crowds are huddled around radios and TV sets silently absorbing the news, blank faced, as if unable to comprehend what they are seeing and hearing.

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In addition to all the disfunctions that it currently has - there would be my lack of (you fill in the blank) satisfaction, independence, fulfillment, sense of contribution, economic freedom... go ask Freud.

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