Each vessels will have ten to fifty buoys, which they throw overboard, and let drift with the current.

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But about 85m years ago, as India started to drift away from Madagascar towards its current location, the microcontinent would have broken up, eventually disappearing beneath the waves.

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Charles Nedoss, senior market strategist with Kingsview Financial, said going into next week he expects prices to hold in the current trading range, but to drift higher.

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If the current pattern of cutting weapons and protecting people persists as defense budgets drift downward, the United States will lose the technological edge it has long enjoyed in warfighting.

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It may push America into realising that the system has become an absurdity, the result of inertia, drift and bureaucratic empire-building rather than a cool assessment of the government's current needs.

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