You see, the customer had absent-mindedly finished his transaction but left his wallet on some counter.
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Once I absent-mindedly put a bit of SodaMix in the water before I tried to carbonate it.
The wrong kind of growth, pursued too single-mindedly, fails to help the poor and destroys the environment.
As he spoke, he waved his hand in a vague, regal gesture, like somebody absent-mindedly swatting away a fly.
The first is Mr Obama's failure to grapple as fast and as single-mindedly with the economy as he should have done.
Their coalition, now single-mindedly concentrating on ousting Mr Habibie, has dramatically shortened the odds that Indonesia will soon have new leaders.
With both the learning curve and team-bonding risks out of the way, such a team can focus single-mindedly on the task at hand.
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Rather than focus its energies single-mindedly on developing devices that can compete with iPhone, Android devices and the iPad, RIM indulges product design boondoggles.
The risk is that in single-mindedly looking out for inflationary icebergs, a central bank will fail to spot the rocks that lie dead ahead.
It can also demoralise intelligence officers, who may have signed up, high-mindedly, to defend democracy, and find themselves working in something less exalted such as arms sales.
Woodland drew Morse dots and dashes as he sat on the beach and absent-mindedly left his fingers in the sand where they traced a series of parallel lines.
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Tolkien, he reported, would write long lists of words on the blackboard, obscuring them with his body as he droned on, then would absent-mindedly erase them without turning around.
"Jimmy was shining the ball and when he turned it over it was almost as if he was absent-mindedly assessing the rough side, " he told BBC Radio 5 live.
Mr. Li and other Chinese scholars and labor experts say workers from earlier generations, who hailed mainly from poor farms in China's hinterland, were accustomed to hard farm work and more single-mindedly focused on making money.
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He won the party's nomination for the chancellorship only a few months before last year's general election, much too late to be able to impose his will single-mindedly, either in the selection of policies or of top people.
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