Stocks have plummeted more than 40% since Obama sewed up the Democratic nomination in June.

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Barack Obama sewed up the Democratic presidential nomination, his Senate colleagues on Capitol Hill were straining to pull together their deeply torn party.

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Walton Lillehei opened the chest of 4-year-old Pamela Schmidt, cut into her heart and, with seven silk stitches, sewed up a 50mm size hole.

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However, once Romney had sewed up the nomination, supply-siders started projecting their hopes onto him, and ignoring what he was actually saying and doing.

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The Dragons tried valiantly to mount a comeback but Munster sewed up the bonus point eight minutes from the end when Williams took a quick tap and bulldozed his way over again from close range.

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"It's actually just a neoprene elbow sleeve that we cut, and then the team's tailor sewed it up, rounding off the front, " Gardner said.

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But Wigan sewed it up with two tries in three minutes from Terry Newton and Willie Peters, then stretched the advantage with a brilliant end-to-end try for debutant winger David Hodgson.

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