21.   After initial reports of the scandal surfaced, Brooks considered transferring to another school and starting with a clean slate.

22.   After years of fixing the brakes, fighting the rust, living with the rattles, you yearn for a clean slate.

23.   Allowing Mr. Carey to run, under these circumstances, simply would not provide a clean slate and a level playing field in the rerun election.

24.   Bryzgalov enters the picture with an apparent clean slate.

25.   But there is still a simple truth to the idea that modern dance starts from a clean slate and functions creatively as a form of highly individual expression.

26.   But U.S. officials say they do not expect a clean slate for Iraq this summer, and perhaps not even in October.

27.   By nullifying the art object, it created a clean slate, reintroduing possibilities that Minimalism and Pop, worldly as they were, had held at bay.

28.   But with a new year comes a chance for a fresh start, a clean slate, if you will.

29.   Campo responded by saying he did not know his top quarterback was given a clean slate.

30.   By ravaging campgrounds, hotel rooms, housekeeping cabins and employee housing in its corridor, the river gave the Park Service a more or less clean planning slate.