Both stents are used to hold open arteries after they have been unclogged using a balloon, a procedure known as angioplasty.

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These things are well worth the price for the short- and long-term power of tax-rate reduction, sound currency and unclogged credit arteries.

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Unclogged arteries are not, however, the main point of eating hamburgers.

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Palm suggests an IM or email might be in order, and smartphone users will have better luck getting their messages delivered over the comparably unclogged data networks.

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If this bottleneck were unclogged, inventory turns would be 2.5.

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There have been dark hints from people at Boeing that manufacturing work on the Sonic Cruiser, a high-speed airliner, will move out of the state unless traffic between Boeing's factories around Seattle gets unclogged.

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