To add to the charm of Al Ain, height limits on new buildings ensure that no skyscrapers blot out the skyline.

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To find out, the 200 patients in the Houston trial are being given an amnesia-inducing drug to blot out the memory of the operation before they are whisked into the operating room.

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And the nuclear-winter hypothesis (that the smoke from fires caused by a global nuclear war would blot out the sun's rays and thus cool the earth catastrophically) owes its origin, at least in part, to observations of a planet-wide dust storm on Mars.

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As the problems mounted up they became too much to bear and she had used alcohol to blot them out.

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Think about it--from the cute Honda CRX with the pullout tailgate table to the climb-anything-anywhere Jeep Liberty to the blot-out-the-sun Chevy Avalanche.

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Concentration of power production confines its viewscape blot to a small place (although it spreads out emissions, accidental and otherwise).

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This was later thrown out by the US military authorities and replaced with an administrative reprimand, essentially a blot on his record.

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Somebody out there wants you to design websites, board dogs, run errands, write blot posts, do laundry, deliver packages, be a virtual assistant.

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