More like kidney beans, slick and cool, eyes still sealed shut.

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Mr. Lieto's lawyer, Mr. Kessler, had filed a deposition from a vault manager who had watched Mr. Lieto's two still-sealed bags being loaded onto the FBI's truck.

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Although these still-sealed documents apparently contain nothing to contradict McVeigh's boastful confessions, it was widely assumed that his lawyers would be granted more time to study them.

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Yet we still give this less legal privacy protection than a sealed envelope with a stamp on it.

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While the probate court records themselves have been sealed, the court docket for the estate is still open to the public.

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Further, there still remains a substantial reservoir of suspicion as to how hermetically sealed the so-called anonymous intake is and how it will stand up to the test of time.

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If the well is indeed sealed, the environmental damage, and restrictions on fishing, will still continue for a long time.

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Then came yesterday's complaint that eight days after the Chancellor had signed, sealed and delivered his Autumn Statement to parliament, Welsh Ministers were still none the wiser how much extra money they actually have to spend on day to day matters, in other words by how much their revenue budgets had been boosted.

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Afghanistan's UNICEF representative Eric Larouche told CNN his organisation still has about 70 national staff in Afghanistan, but they have no means of communication because the Taliban sealed all lines.

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