1.   But later, officials said, the launching platform might be left in place at sea.

2.   Jurors sit on plain plastic chairs and work off wooden rectangular folding tables shoved together to provide a launching platform for the mound of entries.

3.   For days, smoke had obscured landmarks, including the opera house and bridge, which was used as a launching platform for hundreds of skyrockets.

4.   They said a launching platform had been moved out of an assembly plant and North Korean observation ships deployed in the Sea of Japan, the assumed splashdown point.