Its white sand beaches were a blank page waiting to be written on.

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In Ogilvy's case, the product to be sold was a pretty nice one, but he had to start with a blank page, nonetheless.

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This isespecially true if your company has an IQ edge, as Google does, and if you're strategizing from a blank page, as startups do.

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Pinker believes we live in a world that prefers to see the mind as a blank page ready to be overwritten by culture rather than something already shaped by our genes and evolution.

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He dismissed Labour as a "blank page in British politics", unable to build a strong economy.

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Right now the site of the web chat service, run by Andrey Ternovskiy, a 17-year-old student in Moscow, is not much to look at: a mostly blank web page with a video chat window in the center.

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It's certainly a unique approach to browsing from your couch -- and no less awkward then sluggishly dragging a virtual mouse across your TV -- but the view centric navigation can break the illusion of a well designed website, showing blank space on a page's borders if the user isn't looking at it dead-center.

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My efforts to post a note at the blank page failed.

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Blank, by the way, is a 200-page work of fiction containing only 20 evocative chapter titles and stunning pyrographic drawings by artist Susan White.

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