I agree that there is a tendency to go for the dramatic headline rather than to probe the behind-the-scenes working of the offshores supplies office.
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We are all familiar with on-shore breezes at the seaside on a warm day, and off-shore breezes at night.
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Traditional labor-intensive industries are steadily being moved off-shore and replaced with more capital- and technology-intensive industries.
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In addition to woodlands there are wide open spaces, green fields, scrub, marsh, water and numerous off-shore islands.
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A number of off-shore islands can be seen from the beach.
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She opposes the expansion of oil production and has voted against building new refineries, off-shore drilling, and subsidies for oil and gas exploration.
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A detective enters the plot to tell them that the male conspirator had already transferred the money to an off-shore account and one girl panics.
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A sudden change of the weather could drive them off-shore.
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The season focuses on the survivors splitting into two groups, after making contact with a freighter off-shore.
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The shark spends most of its time in the upper layer of the ocean -- to a depth of 150m ft -- and prefers off-shore, deep-ocean areas.
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The tenders were designed to provide logistics support (fuel, fresh water, and food) to manned off-shore lighthouses.
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All mainland industries pay taxes but theoffshoreoil industry is exempted.
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Off-shore habitats are used by seals, waterfowl, loons, grebes, cormorants, and alcids.
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Tourist attractions include a surfing beach and an off-shore reef supporting sea grasses and sponges - a favourite haunt of divers.
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About 11:15 pm the rear fuselage came to the surface a short distance off-shore.
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