Word: dockyards
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...prosperous 19th-century port in the northeast of England, Hartlepool built the ships that made the British Empire. But like the empire itself, Hartlepool has since withered, and over the past century it has welcomed any work that could help replace the dockyard's disappearing jobs. Steel refineries, petrochemical plants, scrap yards, landfills, an incinerator and a nuclear power plant border the town of nearly 90,000. But in 2003, when four rusting U.S. Navy vessels arrived at a local dock to be scrapped, for many locals it was the last straw. "We are not the world's dustbin," read...
...when nearly 100 members of her party refused to back a Thatcher proposal to raise salaries for top government officials by as much as 46%. Both the Tory rebels and Labor opponents denounced the raises as insensitive, coming at a time when the government is pushing teachers, nurses and dockyard workers to accept increases of less than 6%. After a bitter debate, the House of Commons passed the government motion 249 to 232, the narrowest margin on any parliamentary vote since Thatcher won a second term in 1983 with a majority of 144 seats...
...comparison, Harbour often seems stilted. While Stephen Curtis's set evokes Sydney's watery darkness, Thomson's writing only skims the dockyard drama. Humor is to be found in the substory of scab worker Craig (Mitchell Butel), but for all its talk about a defining moment in history, Harbour lacks focus - unlike Rabbit, which never takes its eye off the ball. 'It's a thread that goes through your life," supporter Mark Courtney says of the Rabbitoh tradition. Flaunting the red of the Catholic church and the green of the club founders' Irish homeland, it's a play that dares...
...Times expressed the same skepticism. Economics professor Thomas Martin wrote, ``If we accept this fallacy, we should also expect to see bombing campaigns included in the next fiscal-stimulus package.'' A rebuilding project that will not want for money is Kobe's crippled seaport. By far the most modern dockyard complex in Japan, it normally handles about 30% of all the country's container shipping. Last week only 27 of 191 berths remained in working order, none of them slips for container carriers. Finished just two years ago, the facilities on the artificial island of Rokko suffered collapse...
...give bone-weary crewmen a rest. Saturday's race was canceled because of shifting winds, after which the Americans called another day off, and both crews rested on Sunday. Meanwhile, in anticipation of light air, which has generally favored his opponent, Conner sent Liberty to a Narragansett Bay dockyard for adjustments of the ballast in its bottom. The Australians would just as soon have heavy weather. Skipper Bertrand, who took a master's degree in ocean engineering at M.I.T., recalls that he once took his boat out in a "cyclone just to see what...