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Petroleum markets remained calmer than in 1979 largely because the world's oil-importing nations have bulging inventories. Japan has a 111-day supply, some of it stored in tankers swinging at anchor in Japanese ports. Observes one top oil industry executive in New York City caustically: "The Japanese would like to panic, but they have no place to put any more...
...Basra and proclaimed Iranian territorial waters a "war zone." Ships passing through Hormuz were advised by Iranian navy craft to avoid Iraqi ports. While for the most part the traffic-and the oil-kept flowing, some supertanker captains hove to. Off Kuwait, a fleet of the giant ships dropped anchor, waiting...
...interchange of news and opinions, the sale of solacing drinks and sociability." So necessary were they that the city offered tax incentives for setting up shop. The legislature, in fact, threatened in 1656 to fine towns without bars. All the inducements paid off in 1671 when the Blue Anchor, later to become Bradish's, and still later Porter's, opened at the corner of Boylston and Mt. Auburn streets...
Andrew Belcher opens the Blue Anchor Tavern...
...first to agree. The Planning Board has yet to approve the new plans--and there are signs they may be wary of the changes. Fearing that Harvard Square is becoming too youth-oriented, some members of the board had hoped a large retail development in Parcel 1B might anchor the Square and slow the transition...