Word: port
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...chandeliers and objets. Members--never more than 260, by invitation only--are entitled to stay in any of the apartments whenever they like and have access to a private jet from any European location and use of the club's launch, as well as its yacht, docked at the Port of Venice. The glass museum will be open to the public during the day, and club members can invite guests in after hours for an aperitif. Membership in the club, which will open in June 2008, begins at $476,000, plus annual dues of about $19,000 for operating costs...
...Chen Yun Chung is one of about 20 activists who have been camping out in shifts on the grubby tile floor of Queen's Pier since April 26, the day after the government closed the former ceremonial port for visiting British dignitaries. Chen, who is also a professor of urban planning, and members of this loose-knit coalition of non-profit and student groups are determined to stop the Hong Kong government tearing down, or relocating the historic structure to make way for a new highway and ongoing land reclamation project that is reshaping Hong Kong's waterfront. "People feel...
...Port Huron, Michigan Two 14 year-olds plot to kill at least 154 people at school in an attempt to outdo the shooting at Columbine high school. They are stopped after fellow students report them...
...section chief, referring to the city's 200-year reign as the island's capital before Taipei replaced it in 1885. Tainan's founding father, a Ming dynasty general called Koxinga, arrived from China in 1661 with a fleet of artists and scholars, intent on transforming the Dutch-ruled port into a beacon of Chinese culture. It worked, and today's Tainanese are quick to claim their city as the island's guardian of tradition...
Take Petronas, a Malaysian oil company in which Harvard has holdings: It has already completed a $1.2 billion oil development project, and since the start of the genocide, it has announced that it is constructing a $1 billion oil refining facility in Port Sudan, set to be completed by 2009. Worst of all, Petronas’ fuel is used for government military aircraft, which then bomb villages in Darfur...