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

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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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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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