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departure point

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1. A navigational check point used by aircraft as a marker for setting course.
2. In amphibious operations, an air control point at the seaward end of the helicopter approach lane system from which helicopter waves are dispatched along the selected helicopter approach lane to the initial point.


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Investigators were trying to determine if he got into the aircraft in Los Angeles or London or a previous departure point.
7 were fuller and more up-to-date, it would have provided a better departure point for scrutinizing the first global epidemic of the twenty-first century.
Far too often, particularly when it came to Israeli-Palestinian diplomacy, our departure point was not what was needed to reach an agreement acceptable to both sides but what would pass with only one--Israel.
 
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