For the first time in years, the city had a clean financial slate.

It would be nice to think everyone has a clean slate, though.

I always look forward to a fresh start, a clean slate.

Many people today believe that children begin life with a clean slate.

But we can only do that to a clean slate.

There were several points of view on the clean slate.

Such a year created the opportunity to start the future with a clean slate.

This is going to happen, he said to himself, approach it as a clean slate.

In living so far away from your home, you'll suddenly find yourself holding a clean slate.

"The Bush administration will be a clean slate," one official said.