While the slate itself was previously used (this is a loaner from ASUS), the Mobile Dock arrived factory sealed so I have to assume this is characteristic of every piece of hardware.

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As Mr Hickey points out, a factory that Sealed Air opened in Mexico was expected to be far less productive than one in America, but within four years had caught up.

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The factory producing the medicine has been sealed, and three people have been arrested, including a distributor of the medicine.

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And less than a year after the announcement that sealed the fate of the Keynsham factory, the last chocolate bar has rolled off the production line.

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Workers at Renault's car plant in Belgium have demonstrated at the European Commission against the closure of their factory, when it was their government's tax and social-security regime that sealed their fate.

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