The other two sat opposite, more attentive, pens poised over notepads half full with scribbles.

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On the secretary are bills and Post-it notepads and loose receipts and whatnot.

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Two hundred fifty men and women mill around the Sheraton Gateway Los Angeles Hotel ballroom, notepads in hand.

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Journalists were allowed into the courtroom but made to leave mobile phones, cameras and even pens and notepads outside.

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Tattered notepads turned obsolete, as many artists instead began committing raps to memory or constructing them off the cuff in the studio, one line at a time.

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Perhaps you bought some pens, pencils, paper and notepads.

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Some doodled on notepads, but the Senator was glowing.

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He opened a closet and pulled out a plastic tub filled with reams of graph paper documenting early versions of the Ithkuil script and twenty-year-old sentence conjugations handwritten in marker on a mishmash of folded notepads.

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Just cranks and their notepads.

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