Both President Obama and Mitt Romney, for example, have come out in favor of stapling a green card.

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Several months earlier, I had performed the same operation on a 66-year-old patient, using an identical stapling device.

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Current proposals range from simply stapling a green card to the diploma of any foreign graduate to only for technical (STEM) PhDs.

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Patients pay cash for elective procedures like stomach-stapling or laser eye surgery, so these customers get in the habit of searching for bargains.

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We soon discovered the cause: the nonperformance of the stapling device.

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It's still cheap at 15 times expected 2010 earnings, he says, but management has done an excellent job of investing in products with strong recurring revenue such as surgical stapling machines and single-use laparoscopic tools.

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You slide a small camera a laparoscope into the abdomen through a quarter-inch incision near the belly button, insert a long grasper through an incision beneath the waistline, and push a device for stapling and cutting through an incision in the left lower abdomen.

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