As The Economist went to press, the Sirius Star had dropped anchor off the Somali pirate port of Haradheere.

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America's presence has not been invisible: last month, President George Bush sent 2, 300 marines to anchor off Liberia's coast in case of further trouble.

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On Thursday afternoon, after a suitable send off, the SA Agulhas will weigh anchor and slip beneath Tower Bridge on its way to the world's coldest continent.

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So often limited in the game by his role as Arsenal's midfield anchor, Alexandre Song shook off the shackles and was almost rewarded for it when he collected the ball on the half-way line and drove forward before unleashing a shot that struck the outside of the post.

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The venture plans to anchor a cruise ship three miles off the coast of Los Angeles, filling it with programmers from around the world.

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With Ganguly playing a range of fine shots off front and back foot, Agarkar could have dropped anchor.

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The Bloomberg administration is considering such a delay because it doesn't want to create competition for the city's ambitious Hudson Yards project on the Far West Side, where developers are still seeking anchor tenants to help get large office towers off the ground.

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While all this is happening, just over the horizon off the Isle of Wight, huge car transporters sit at anchor awaiting instructions.

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Which is the setting Emmy-award-winning anchor of Inside Edition, Deborah Norville, has used to kick off her short yet powerful book.

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In the U.S., meanwhile, the traditional shopping mall is part of a saturated market, thanks to the off-mall big-box retailers and to retail-industry consolidation that has jettisoned previously popular anchor stores like Montgomery Ward from the landscape.

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