After disposing of its load at the burial ground and making its way through several small villages, the driver had to stop to ask the way.

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As each truck arrives, children jump up on to the back, and start frantically sorting through the mountain of junk, before the load has even been deposited on the ground.

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The Americans are trying to use e-mail for routine ground-to-air communication, freeing voice channels and lightening the load for controllers.

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It uses sensors on an unmanned helicopter to locate a load and pick it up automatically without having anyone on the ground.

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As we all know, following the announcement that Apple will issue debt (at attractive rates) and return a load of cash to investors, the stock has quickly recovered some ground.

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Down below, the workmen had prepared a metal net, which was fixed to the ground with long nails, all around the space where the crane was slowly lowering its load.

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He made up ground quickly in the opening laps after choosing to start from the pit lane with a full fuel load, but came to a halt in 16th place on lap three when he came up behind Jenson Button's Honda.

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