Word: port
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Meanwhile, the city's bustling port is at 100% capacity and in need of expansion. Expanding the port would bring tremendous new business to the city; in addition to construction jobs, the port expansion would create hundreds of fulltime jobs for longshoreman, who's pay starts at $19 an hour. Yet these high paying jobs will have to wait, since the stadium drive has monopolized all infrastructure resources...
Haiti's new Prime Minister, Robert Malval, reinstated Port-au-Prince's mayor, Evans Paul, despite threats by armed goons, among them civilian police auxiliaries, that they would kill both men if the mayor tried to recover his old job. Paul was ousted along with President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in a 1991 military coup. After the mayor's return,the thugs who had seized city hall killed six Aristide supporters. Days later, businessman Antoine Izmery was dragged out of Mass and executed. Aristide is expected to return to power next month...
...Strip and Jericho, provoking reprisals that could easily turn into a bloodbath. They are also worried about how much easier it will be to stage large-scale terrorist operations into Israel. The Israelis will still command the bridge connecting Jordan and Jericho, but they will no longer control Gaza port. Today the Palestinians have no missiles that can reach Israel from the occupied territories, but a simple, crude Katyusha rocket smuggled in by sea could hit the Israeli city of Ashkelon, only eight miles away...
...among the best educated in the country, are abandoning college to pursue more lucrative professions like drug smuggling. "The result is a tremendous loss of talent that Nigeria cannot afford if it is to compete in the modern world," says Claude Ake, a political scientist at the University of Port Harcourt...
...American psyche seems pleased to see the President as a sportsman who lives relatively well, occasionally with a hint of aristocratic idleness. The summer retreats of past Presidents have provided a setting where they could show themselves off in this light. John F. Kennedy went to Hyannis Port and sailed in all weathers; at his ranch in Texas (the Texas White House, as it was known), Lyndon Johnson hunted deer; Richard Nixon spent weeks every summer at his large house by the Pacific in San Clemente (or the Western White House, as it was known) indulging in Californian luxuriance; Ronald...