The grass was making needle-like pricks through the thin material of her maroon scrubs, and she sat up, smoothing her matching V-neck over her chest and belly, feeling the familiar stab of self-consciousness as her hand rode over the unfashionable lumps.

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As Forbes wrote in March, Merck has a killer app when it comes to making copycat proteins (see "Needle Work").

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The issue of course, is that there is so much private documentation, making the act of finding sneaky behaviour much like finding a digital needle in a haystack.

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American Needle sued the NFL on the grounds that all 32 teams colluded to keep them from making licensed hats by entering into an exclusive 10-year licensing deal with Reebok.

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