In Mr. Frampton's lab, technicians spent several hours this past week rubbing the branches and weighing needle loss from hundreds of Fraser fir samples, to weed out non-needle-holding family lines.
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Indonesia is running needle exchanges and handing out methadone to heroin users, although only at a handful of clinics.
The latest models from Rita Medical and Boston Scientific contain umbrella-like tines that fold out from the main needle once it has been inserted into the tumor.
While that might sound a bit pretentious, and just about as fun as, say, a sewing needle injury, Fashion's Night Out started for a more practical reason: To help the struggling U.S. clothing industry in an era of economic uncertainty.
Dr Frauscher said a course of antibiotics would take care of any infections, but a needle biopsy or surgery might be required to rule out cancer or to alleviate pain.
In countries like Britain, which have a large population of asylum-seekers and illegal immigrants, seeking out militants can be like looking for a needle in a haystack.
With a flip of the traction-control switch and a depression of the accelerator, the needle red-lined on the rpm gauge and the car sprang out of the snow with the alacrity of a mountain goat.
Jobs are appearing in the economy, the report shows, but people are not out looking for them in great enough numbers to move the needle of real unemployment firmly downward.
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Decked out with swooping curves, racing horizontal bands, wraparound windows, needle-like towers and candy-coloured neon, the architecture was designed to remind visitors that they 0 200 400 600 800 1000 were on holiday.
Where it stands out from the crowd, or where it can be lost like a needle in the proverbial haystack?
We set out to improve the perception of our brands so did we do that and move the needle?
There are smudge marks where Beethoven rubbed out the brown ink before it could dry, and scratches where he erased notes with a needle.
The union breathed a heavy sigh of relief in May when the American Needle case did not award a sweeping antitrust exemption for the league, a decision that would have wiped out the decertification option.
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Over nine years and at least a dozen sittings under a needle in a tattoo chair (Thomas said the tattoo parlor "is a great place for just hanging out too"), the 25-year old has had bits of his story inked on his body.
Long story short, American Needle Inc. argued that the NFL violated antitrust law because all 32 NFL teams worked together to freeze it out of the NFL-licensed-brand-hat-making business when they gave that exclusive right to Reebok for ten years.
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The companies are pouring billions of dollars into marketing in attempts to carve out, or protect, scintillas of market share, but these huge investments no longer are moving the needle very much.
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