Word: ported
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said Adams, "they must do it in a nondiscriminatory manner." That means setting maximum noise levels that also rule out all other aircraft failing to meet the community's noise standard. If that turns out to be the case in New York, the ban by the local Port Authority would be allowed to stand...
...intricate schemes. One minute he is the Venetian magnifico, reveling in his gold and his audacity and boasting that even "the Turk is not more sensual in his pleasures than Volpone." The next he is an old man of faltering soprano. "Oh," he says, "I am sailing to my port and I am glad I am so near my haven...
...black men were arrested on Aug. 18 at a police roadblock near Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape district of South Africa. Under the country's tough Terrorism Act, one of them was detained for questioning-incommunicado-in Port Elizabeth. On Sept. 5, according to police statements, the prisoner went on a hunger strike, and six days later he was transferred to Pretoria Central Prison. One night last week a warder looked through a peephole in the prisoner's cell and saw him "lying very still." A doctor was called to certify the death...
That left two outfits in the running. The first was the El Paso Co., one of the nation's largest gas transmission firms (1976 sales: $1.4 billion). It advocated an "all-American" solution: building a gas pipeline alongside the existing Alaskan oil pipeline to the port of Valdez, where the gas would be liquefied and shipped in special tankers to California...
...first evidence of these virulent new bugs was detected in May at the King Edward VIII Hospital in Durban, a port on the Indian Ocean, where five children ranging in age from three months to two years came down with unusually persistent cases of pneumonia. Three eventually died of meningitis. The two who recovered did so only after long treatment...