Many seller of flooded cars will steam clean the engine compartment but usually forget to wipe down afterwards.

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"It could be from dispensing with a hand that wasn't clean or using wet rags to wipe down the machine, " Godard said.

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Looking at pictures of the wood burner in his living room, the witness said it appeared a cloth had been used to wipe down the front glass.

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Be courteous, and wipe down the equipment when you're done.

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The CDC, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, recommend that you wipe down equipment after each use and perhaps, you want to use a barrier like a towel to sit on equipment.

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You can lock the phone down, recover data and wipe any sensitive information.

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Some American officials believe that Ahmadinejad's intemperate statements, like his threat to wipe Israel off the map, have not gone down well at home.

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Bats only have one young a year, and they don't have them every year, so if they were using your roof loft as their maternity roost and you knocked down the building or put in a loft extension, it would wipe out that whole population.

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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.

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