Word: dockings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Adopting offense as a good defense, Charleston decided to go after the far larger Norfolk, arguing that the shrinking Navy and defense budget called for eliminating a facility with more dock space than the Charleston yard. "If you close Charleston or Portsmouth," says Elizabeth Inabinet, president of the Charleston Chamber of Commerce, "you just don't take out enough capacity...
...commission hearing two weeks ago, however, the Norfolk supporters got a shock. Though Norfolk is the only one of the three yards on the list that can overhaul aircraft carriers, commission members pointed out that a private firm, the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., just down the road from Norfolk, would be willing and able to pick up that business. In fact, Newport News is short of work and earlier this month laid off 1,000 workers...
...month, they filed suit in Middlesex County Superior Court seeking to recover the $2.7 million in damages he owed as part of the Los Angeles suit. Charging that he might flee Massachusetts if he learned about the new suit, the bank filed an ex parte motion which sought to dock his Harvard paycheck...
Epstein says the Middlesex court gave him a victory by ruling that Manufacturers could not dock his Harvard paycheck. He says the bank could have easily contacted him in New York. But Burdge disagrees, saying the $13,000 annual settlement will ensure the bank gets the money from Epstein even after he leaves Harvard...
Concerns that Pitkin and city councillors said needed to be addressed include the increased use of the hospital's loading dock, which would accompany expansion, and the inconveniences the construction would cause to people who live on Line Street, which is adjacent to the hospital...