Word: blankly
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...government bailout. While describing the industry "historically as the backbone of America's manufacturing base," he split the difference between advocating direct loans of the kind denied by Congress last week and doing nothing. Obama vowed to "help the auto industry," but noted, "We can't just write a blank check ... I was surprised that they did not have a better thought-out proposal when they arrived in Congress...
When a user accesses The Warble website, only the publication’s title and a white screen are visible, but as the user moves his or her mouse over the blank space, different works of art become visible, disappearing and reappearing as the cursor travels across the computer screen. “The goal of it was simplicity,” Wright says of The Warble’s interactive aspect, “because it sort of allows you to focus on one thing at a time, which is kind of cool, and also you don?...
...court.While Wright, Kenyi, and McNally will likely see the most playing time in the class of 2012, center Peter Swiatek and forwards Peter Boehm and Hugh Martin will all fight for minutes on a roster that is half freshmen. Amaker himself looks at each one as a blank slate. The highly touted players will have to fight for a spot in the rotation just as hard as everyone else.“I don’t go by who’s the most touted,” Amaker says, when asked about the freshmen impact...
...would beat around the bush for awhile, but Chris got right to the point. When he was three years old, he had a poster of the 42 American presidents in his bedroom. Within weeks he had memorized every name, and he was already picturing his face in the blank spot the poster had left for the 43rd president. His mother, A. Maria Ballesteros, said she got used to explaining to friends that she and her husband weren’t forcing Chris to memorize anything. “Otherwise they’d think we were weird parents...
...ultra-religious neighborhoods, which seem like a step back into 19th-century Eastern Europe, many Hassidic Jews either broke with tradition and voted for a secular candidate or left the mayoral ballot blank. Police say several brawls broke out between Porush supporters and jeering Hassidic youths...