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In music, the change in tone-quality between different registers of voices and of wind instruments, a natural defect which may be more or less successfully corrected by technical means.
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Byline: J A H PORTEOUS WITH reference to plans to scrap the Clemenceau by Able UK Ltd at Hartlepool: no one complained when Hugh Bolckow's at Blyth or Clayton and Davy at Dunston on Tyne were breaking ships.
Letter: VOICE OF THE NORTH - There's money in breaking ships by The Journal (Newcastle, England)
Chairman of the Ecodock project group and Northern Defence Industries chief David Bowles said actual work on breaking ships is unlikely to start until next year due to red tape in getting contracts freed up.
Break-through! by Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)
Ethical owners may soon have the best of both worlds when breaking ships, however.
Ship recycling: a cleaner, greener way to scrap large boats. ... by de Laine, Michael / E
 
 
 
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