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  • The term Empty Quarter refers to a desolate stretch of land in the southeastern corner of the Arabian Peninsula.

    Islam, Obama and the Empty Quarter 2010

  • The term Empty Client was adopted to describe and differentiate the paradigm, because unlike most "Thin Clients", that require installation (Citrix for example), Visual WebGui doesn't.

    Press Releases 2008

  • For years, the Empire State Building in New York was known as the "Empty State Building" because of its slow leasing progress.

    Saudis Plan World's Tallest Tower Summer Said 2011

  • I mean, he makes this reference in Empty Child and in Girl in the Fireplace to the Doctor's past ... but one wonders if he is ever going to give us this past.

    The Essence of the Humperdinck! rabid1st 2009

  • Republican Peter Peterson's book, Running on Empty, is a frightening description of our huge deficit, and its future implications, brought on by the mindless Bush Administration policy of cutting taxes for the rich.

    Balkinization 2006

  • Empty is Bo'sh, the "o" isnt o, but a mixture of "o" and "u", as for "head", you are right it is indeed o, i.e. bosh ..

    Top 10 Absurdities (so far) 2004

  • By the next year, the concept of the fundraiser became known as Empty Bowls.

    State Journal Featured Content 2009

  • His performance in Running On Empty is easily the best I’ve ever seen by a young actor.

    Eric’s Top 10 Untimely Actor Deaths » Scene-Stealers 2008

  • Mr. Kingwell asserts, without evidence, that the nickname Empty State Building “still rises to New Yorkers’ lips.”

    A Skyscraper (in Theory) And Its Myriad Meanings 2006

  • Outside, a more successful cloud entitled "Empty Incense" appeared at intervals above a field of pebbles reminiscent of Ai Weiwei's "Sunflower Seeds," recently shown at Tate Modern in London.

    Setting the Art World Alight Andrew McKie 2011

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