The Mountsorrel quarry donated ballast and the charity bought second-hand track from Network Rail.
"I find the suggestion of adding ballast to anyone's car rather distasteful, " Head said.
He said Styrofoam ballast kept the debris afloat as it crossed the open sea.
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Weeds sprout through the track ballast and vie with discarded crisp packets and drink cans.
But Ramezani's study of thousands of companies from January 1990 to December 2000 provides intellectual ballast.
Ships' planking survives and there are always ballast stones along with a lot of pottery.
Matthew Ballast, of the publishing company, confirmed to Reuters that the leaked document is the author's work.
And the Germans badly want the British aboard the euro-ship, in part as counter-ballast to the French.
It provides, he says, the ballast to make Mr Gandhi prime minister after the presidential elections in June.
The consumer market has never provided the ballast for Cisco that it has for Apple, Hewlett-Packard and Dell.
With less ballast to distribute optimally around the car, a heavier driver is already at a competitive disadvantage.
That's very different from conventional submarines, which basically dive by changing the ballast of the ship to make it sink.
Its sales growth is slowing, too, but not as fast as the retail group's, and the business provides welcome ballast.
The line's 3m concrete sleepers are being cast there, and the ballast on which they will lie is quarried nearby.
Others have hired marine architects to determine how boats can increase stability, by adding ballast or filling compartments with flotation foam.
As the capsule thunders downwards, it ejects ballast blocks to move its centre of gravity and tilt its angle of attack.
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Both are clamorous, fragmented democracies with entrenched interests and cultures--including larger rural populations--that hold back reform but also add civic ballast.
Short-term support has materialized at the 15-level, but, as the stock's sentiment backdrop reveals, this ballast could be tentative at best.
Young people are the raw capital of the information age and innovation, and new families are its ballast and growth market.
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Recent history also suggests REITS are not exactly ballast in down markets.
And when it delivers its payload, it needs to be weighted down with ballast to stop it shooting up into the air.
Although there is an additional cost in fixing reinforcement cables and ballast, Garvey believes the future economic prospects for his invention are good.
After years of wartime chaos, the budding priest viewed the Roman Catholic Church as a ballast against the destabilizing forces of Nazi totalitarianism.
Creamy lemon curd enriches each forkful, brightening the vegetables' flavor and the plate's overall color scheme, while the ruddy quinoa grains provide earthy ballast.
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Other threats include some 140 exotic species of flora, fish and shellfish that have found their way into the lakes, some via ships' ballast.
Running in the wake of the Republican takeover, Daschle was opposed by old lions like Moynihan and Byrd, who thought he lacked the necessary ballast.
Everybody knows you need fixed-income securities as ballast in a portfolio.
The cylinder is anchored to gravel ballast on the sea floor.
Built in 1997 with 1.2 million tons of concrete and ballast, Hibernia (ChevronTexaco owns 27%) sits on some 700 million barrels, producing 150, 000 barrels a day.
Built in 1997 with 1.2 million tons of concrete and ballast, Hibernia (ChevTex owns 27%) sits on some 700 million barrels, producing 150, 000 barrels a day.
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