"Once you start to write about numbers, it's sedative time, " says Syracuse University television and film professor Richard Dubin .

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Yet irrespective of how the specific write-down numbers are interpreted, H-P has seized on the Autonomy debacle as an opportunity to wipe the slate clean.

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Taking a Sharpie to a stick is hardly extraordinary for hockey players, who tend to write their names and numbers on them to identify them.

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Write down your credit card account numbers and the toll-free numbers of all your credit card companies, and keep that information in a safe place at home, separate from your credit cards.

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In one experiment (with Loewenstein and a third colleague) Ariely asked people to write down two digits of their Social Security numbers.

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After a fan write-in campaign, DC revised the issue numbers to reflect the original starting date of the title, resulting in the next issue being numbered 600.

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While most reporters at the lockups just write articles, data providers also focus on getting the numbers to clients instantaneously.

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As I write this, the latest Federal Reserve H.6 money supply numbers show that, in the 3 months ending in July 2012, M2 grew at a 6.5 percent annual rate.

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She recalled some opening their laptops to review her prescription numbers, say she wasn't prescribing enough of their drugs and request she write the "next five" for their products.

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In a world that still numbers 793 million illiterate adults, women account for two thirds of those who cannot read and write.

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