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COLUMBIA, S.C. — Four of the five largest U.S. tobacco companies sued the federal government Tuesday over new graphic cigarette labels that include the sewn-up corpse of a smoker and a picture of diseased lungs, saying the warnings violate their free speech rights and will cost millions of dollars to print.
Cigarette Warning Labels: Tobacco Companies Sue Federal Government Over Graphic Warnings The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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On the estate and in the city generally then, writes Hatherley, "the very fact that [many] spaces were unused ... led to a sense of possibility absent from the sewn-up, high-rent city of today".
A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain by Owen Hatherley – review Andy Beckett 2010
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This is significant because: 1. It means Apple can update iBooks without having to issue a whole new OS upgrade see also: fixing holes in the DRM 2. It means Apple can withhold iBooks from territories where they don't have a sewn-up licensing deal with the publishers, and release it when they get such a deal.
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President Carter had already sewn-up the nomination but Sen. Kennedy would not concede.
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Melanies mouth always gets obvious sewn-up stitches in the corners when she lies.
The Fortunes of Indigo Skye Deb Caletti 2009
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Melanies mouth always gets obvious sewn-up stitches in the corners when she lies.
The Fortunes of Indigo Skye Deb Caletti 2009
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This ability to penetrate a sewn-up market is largely due to the green community and its increasing clout.
Richard Seireeni: How the Green Community is Giving Birth to New Brands 2009
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Melanies mouth always gets obvious sewn-up stitches in the corners when she lies.
The Fortunes of Indigo Skye Deb Caletti 2009
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I am Clinton's favorite "all sewn-up" demographic: female, middle aged, Caucasian, well educated, a 30-year Democrat and a feminist.
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In Heart-On, (1975), collaged materials such as paper, cheesecloth, mattress batting and thread form different shapes, including a heart-shaped Valentine box, shapes with sewn-up cuts and others which spill out of the grid system Snyder used extensively in the 1970s to give order to her work.
Joan Snyder. 2009
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