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the anchorages
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A harbor, river, or offshore area that can accommodate a ship at anchor, either for quarantine, queuing, or discharge..
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The anchorages were sealed, and barbed wire was placed on the cables.
At some point the anchorages will also be completely repointed and cleaned, he said.
Later that year, as the bridge neared completion, Montgomery Schuyler, writing in the magazine Architectural Record, noted that the anchorages "wear, indeed, an aspect of Egyptian immobility".
The ends of the four cables are secured to the anchorages to counterbalance the weight of the main span and all its traffic.
Next, the anchorages are built on both ends, usually of reinforced concrete with embedded steel eyebars to which the cables will be fastened.
Now 72, he has been wandering through the Caribbean -- writing cruising guides, charting the anchorages, selling insurance and sailing his ancient, engineless yawl Iolaire -- almost continuously since catching a $45 flight from New York to San Juan in 1956.
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Her father was a senior account executive with the Anchorage Media Group in Anchorage.
THE ANCHORAGE Opens on Friday in Manhattan.
The Anchorage Daily News reported that the cause was kidney failure.
The company bought The Anchorage Daily News in 1979 and went against The Anchorage Times, which it bought and shut down in 1992.
According to The Anchorage Daily News, she was leaking amniotic fluid.
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