There was such a large crowd that a ship's cable, a heavy rope, was stretched across the portico to separate the crowd from Jackson as he took the oath and delivered his inaugural address.

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By enabling cable subscribers to jump ship without even notifying their cable company, that's how.

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But then the Steelers didn't, and the game pushed into overtime, with a lengthy catalog of new NFL rules that sounded more complicated than installing cable television inside a ship in a bottle.

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As a result of limitations like these, he said, the Japanese craft Kaiko had limited manoeuvrability and needed a custom-built ship for spooling out the reams of heavy cable required to attach it to the ship.

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