Word: port
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Under the agreement, the U.S. would contract to purchase some 2 billion cu. ft. of natural gas per day from the Urengoiskoye fields of north central Siberia. This gas will be piped 1,500 miles across permafrost to a warm-water port near Murmansk, where it will be liquefied and then transported by supertanker to the U.S. East Coast. At the same time, the U.S. agrees to purchase between 1.5 billion and 2.5 billion cu. ft. of gas per day from eastern Siberian fields near Yakutsk. This gas in turn will be transported by a U.S.-Japanese consortium...
...around it so that one side begins to experience greater pressure than the other. If the rudder is swung to starboard (right), for instance, pressure on that side will increase and lessen on the other. As a result the stern, or tail end, of the boat will swing to port (left) and the bow, or front, to starboard. Moreover, the turn will become sharper as the rudder angle is increased. But if the angle becomes larger than 35° the rudder will stir up so much turbulence in the vicinity that it will rapidly lose its "grip" on the water...
...National Physical Laboratory, revived an idea once proposed for aircraft wing flaps. They fitted rotating cylinders around the rudder posts of several ship models (see diagram). Equipped with its own small motor, the cylinder can spin in either direction. Thus when the rudder is pushed hard to port (left), for instance, the cylinder is rotated in a clockwise direction. This directs a flow of water against the back of the rudder, smoothing out the turbulence there and making the rudder effective at angles much greater than...
...than the aggregate of less outrageous but still grossly inflated wages paid to workers throughout the $110 billion construction industry. Yet Dowd's semi-millionaire status is an example of needless expense that will be passed on in turn to the World Trade Center's owner (the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey), to the buildings' tenants and ultimately to the public. The cost of the Trade Center, originally projected in 1964 at $350 million, has steadily increased; including some work not planned on then, the total bill is now estimated at $700 million...
...work for the French underground during World War II-German collaborators in Marseille were regularly and efficiently dispatched-and for the French government in the postwar years. In 1948 Paris called upon the Union Corse to break a strike by Communist-controlled unions that threatened to close the port of Marseille. The Union Corse obliged by providing an army of strikebreaking longshoremen to unload the ships and a crew of assassins to gun down defiant union leaders. French government officials have not forgotten such favors...