Ballasted by colonial wealth, his medical and collecting careers prospered.

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They could be traditional ballasted beds or continuous concrete slab.

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They are semi-submersible heavy lift ships, which is to say that the ships are designed to be ballasted down so that their main decks go underwater, allowing their cargo to be floated aboard.

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