Word: port
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...markets. Insurance premiums have been almost impossible. We even have to pay for the inspection of the ships. And we have noticed an increase in this last year rather than a decrease in these inspections and interceptions offshore. We have lost 16 regular lines * that used to serve the port of Aqaba, our only access to the sea. We have lost over $1 billion so far. And not a single ship that was interdicted since the beginning of this problem was found to be carrying anything that was illegal. We cannot understand why this continues. Is it the Security Council...
...there's the American Museum of Natural History right where it belongs, at 79th and Central Park West -- but the date is 1896, a year poised more delicately than most between past and future. Horses still pull cabs, but telephones are fairly common. New York is still a rowdy port city, but finance has replaced shipping as the principal source of its power. Not everything is in transition, though: the poor in 1896, as in 1994, are abused, degraded and clucked over (they live like animals in those awful tenements), and police corruption alarms honest citizens...
...embargo is nearly six months old, and the military is still in power -- awash in gasoline and profits, thanks to the porous border with the Dominican Republic. The reality of oil-embargoed Haiti is nowhere more evident than in the capital of Port-au-Prince, which suffers from traffic jams. Though the brightly colored "tap tap" jitneys used by the poor are disappearing as gas prices soar, the military and the monied still manage to race around town in their Range Rovers and Toyotas tanked up on $150 of smuggled fuel. "The embargo exists in name only. They sell gasoline...
...exodus of refugees, the Clinton Administration has drifted from one version of a peace plan to another, apparently moved more by shifting public pressures than by events. Late last month Vice President Al Gore tried to sell Aristide on a plan that would leave Haiti's most powerful man, Port-au-Prince police chief Lieut. Colonel Michel Francois, in place without setting a date for the President's own return -- a retreat from the Governors Island accord signed last summer...
...first-year student says he sends fake writemessages through port 811, a similar open base...