The burglar alarm by the front door was peeping and blinking, softly, as if to itself.
In the late 1970s he arrived at a client, Caterpillar, and learned that the information he had once held exclusively and provided by hand--bond prices--was now arriving electronically from a rival and blinking away on a computer screen.
But three times in as many weeks Barack Obama has dragged them out dazed and blinking before the Klieg lights: first for an arms treaty with Russia, then to recast America's own policy and now for a summit in Washington, DC.
Dr. Daniel Hanley, professor of neurology at Johns Hopkins Medicine, in Maryland, told CNN that VS is a coma-like state in which patients have a sleep and wake cycle, and can show reflex chewing, swallowing and blinking, but don't respond to language or stimulation.
Back-ups are automated and if there is a problem, you will see blinking yellow and red lights.
It wheezed and coughed and then eventually lay on its side and surrendered, blinking at me.
Botox has been approved to treat people with muscle-control disorders, such as uncontrollable blinking and crossed eyes, since 1989.
The grandmother and the girl stood blinking alongside me as I groused about losing student papers and manuscripts -- plus a pricey new laptop.
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Tourette's syndrome is marked by movements such as shoulder shrugging, eye blinking and head jerking, as well as bizarre vocal tics including barking and uncontrollable outbursts of profanity.
You look up, and there's a star, blinking in code, and the color's changing, too.
And with that, I'm shuffling over towards the door, just underneath that dim exit sign that keeps blinking on and off, its fluorescent bulbs cracking with some syncopated rhythm all their own.
Babies usually respond negatively to sourness too by wrinkling their noses, blinking, and pursing their lips.
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Others accessorized outfits and even bikes with blinking lights to celebrate the occasion.
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He also blogs regularly at Beyond Blinking Lights and Acronyms and you can follow him on Twitter at mikeschaffner.
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He also blogs regularly at Beyond Blinking Lights and Acronyms.
In many ways, he says, the album marks a tonal shift away from the intimate songs of 2004's Blinking Lights and Other Revelations, and instead reflects the mood of the song "Dog Faced Boy, " from Eels' 2001 album Souljacker.
So Benny walked to the shed and turned on the light and stood there for a moment, blinking, but all he could see were the disfigured figurines and the cool kiln, surrounded by dark shadows, which also covered the dusty shelves.
The personal cost was immense and he assumed it without blinking.
Its five-story walls are still lined with screens blinking with market information and news.
Barking is still his dominant tic, but when he was the age of his campers, he wrestled to control several others, including eye blinking, teeth chomping and arm twitching.
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New features will include a low annoyance horn accompanied by blinking lights, leg and footroom to accomodate four adults, a flat floor, stain-resistant and environmentally friendly upholstery, interior air filters, and dual climate controls in the rear.
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Katy Perry recently took to the red carpet wearing a shimmering gown studded with thousands of blinking rainbow lights, and we were impressed by this LED-laden coat that keeps bicyclists safe when they hit the streets at night.
Sitting in the control tower on a recent weekday, Ron Anderson, the dispatcher, and Pete Falotico, the tower operator, pointed to a screen that showed blinking, malfunctioning symbols indicating where damaged signals in the station and the river tunnels were slowly sputtering back to life a few more after each overnight shift of repair work.
She looked up at me from below, from a depth, under the deep roses, blinking in the sunlight, aged and calm.
And his statement obviously was looking for the blinking exit sign.
Sometimes I will find myself staring at the blinking Sanskrit of an airport arrivals and departures schedule to the point of no longer remembering where I'm going, or why I'm bothering.
During our first Christmas we strung blinking lights around our win-dows, and on Christmas Eve, Mr. and Mrs.
And only later still, in the quiet car retrieved from valet parking and en route back to the Laventura, Constance carefully blinking away her own drunkenness at the wheel, did the equally tipsy Fanny Mann squint at her flashing little screen, recover the message, and then phone the hospital to receive the news.
Argentina's been playing hardball with the IMF for a couple of years, and up to now the international bureaucrats have been doing the blinking.
With almost voyeuristic minuteness he has found out that when a body is deprived of water, the lips shrink as if amputated, the gums blacken, the nose withers to half its length, and the skin so contracts round the eyes as to prevent blinking.
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