But the concern has led doctors to back off using the drug-coated stents in every case, leading to the slumping sales of these devices.

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Longlines are slippery in the water and, in this case, the line was coated with broken jellyfish tentacles that stung.

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At least, that was the determination of the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization when the question arose in a different case involving imports of Chinese coated paper.

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At a lunch at One Market in San Francisco, Chris Gronet, a Solyndra founder and then-chief executive, pulled from a case a long cylindrical tube that was coated in thin-film solar cells.

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On a recent trip to New York City, Branagan tucked a wallet-size slab of coated steel into his breast pocket--just in case of stray bullets.

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