Administration aides think that's merely an excuse, but in any case everybody seems to want to clean the slate though that may not really be possible until after election-season rhetoric subsides.
"They have found an absolutely brilliant way to simultaneously show tremendous respect for everything that has gone before, while wiping the slate clean and being able to present the story fresh from the beginning, " he says.
The Clean Slate Art Competition exhibition features artwork from youngsters aged from 13 to 19, created as part of Avon and Somerset Constabulary's youth engagement work.
It's based on flawed assumptions that - the first of which is that we can just kind of wipe the slate clean after three and a half years of sacrifice and death and the president gets a do-over.
Batman Begins also showed that wiping the slate clean and starting over was completely fine.
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Simonsen also reads Clean Slate, the real estate blog of Better Homes and Gardens.
In this context, Mr Clegg did once (unforgivably) talk about "wiping the slate clean".
By wiping the slate clean, creditors may reward past misrule and provide the resources for future misgovernment.
They would pay everything off, and start over with a clean slate, the way they always used to.
John Thain, Merrill's chief executive officer, appears to be doing everything he can to wipe the slate clean for the company.
Instead of allowing Ubuntu to ride shotgun with Android, the installer requires unlocking the device's bootloader, which wipes the slate clean.
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Yet irrespective of how the specific write-down numbers are interpreted, H-P has seized on the Autonomy debacle as an opportunity to wipe the slate clean.
Starting from a clean slate, the concept of a small battery-powered car that could be stacked at various pick-up points around a city took shape.
But by starting with a clean slate at the precise moment they did, Sorenson, Flanary and Holloway were able to design the most efficient network possible.
Even those that do not take home the throne can rest easy knowing there is no better place than an outhouse to wipe the slate clean for next year.
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Unlike an Etch-a-Sketch you cannot wipe the slate clean here.
"It's an opportunity for us to wipe the slate clean, to begin anew, with the a recognition that we have many, many challenges ahead, " said Senate Democratic leader, Tom Daschle.
The Rolling Jubilee project is seeking donations to help it buy-up distressed debts, including student loans and outstanding medical bills, and then wipe the slate clean by writing them off.
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You then say, if you complete this training and you reach the targets and stay out of trouble for two years then, unless the crime was very serious, we just wipe the slate clean and you start your adult life with no convictions.
With the start of the New Year, hedge fund and institutional investors were given a clean slate to get reinvolved in the risk-on trade.
In some ways the United States was coming with a somewhat clean slate, because we had been on the sidelines in many of these negotiations over several years.
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Effective cloud integration technologies are the key to moving forward with a clean slate, unburdened by legacy integration products that limit the flexibility of SaaS solutions growing businesses want and need to use.
Mr Putin cannot be expected to wipe the political slate clean at once.
Are all those who have perpetrated heinous crimes in the name of Palestinian liberation supposed to have the slate wiped clean?
Will he be able to use this clean slate to revolutionize the tech world with a new piece of technology akin to the Wi-Fi he helped bring us?
In the grand scheme of things, though, why even worry about whether being a champion at banging a tiny ball around with a stick wipes the moral slate clean of prior sins?
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The HD, on the other hand, wipes that slate clean, instead sharing a good deal more with the company's reader offerings.
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The slate is wiped clean and players both old and new have a unique opportunity to impress the new regime.
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In closing, let me also remind you to use this time of year to take full advantage of the mental and emotional clean slate a New Year brings.
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