Word: ported
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Michigan's John Swainson has in his 49 years made good over and over again. Captain of the high school football team in Port Huron and an Eagle Scout, Swainson went on to serve with distinction in the 95th Infantry Division during World War II, losing both legs just below the knees in a mine explosion. He won election to the Michigan state senate in 1954 and then served two-year terms in succession as the State's Lieutenant Governor and Governor. After his defeat by George Romney, Swainson served as a circuit court judge before being elevated...
...interests. Economists at President Ford's September summit meetings spotlighted 32 such rigidities. Among them: the Davis-Bacon Act, which compels contractors to pay inflationary wages on federally assisted construction projects; the Jones Act, which forbids shippers to use low-cost foreign vessels to move goods from one U.S. port to another; misnamed fair-trade laws that permit manufacturers to prevent retailers from cutting prices on brand-name products; agricultural "marketing orders" that restrict the supply of oranges, tomatoes and other products; and freight, regulations that force many trucks to return empty from long-distance trips, although they could carry...
...largest as well, and it feeds now off of what it was as much as what it is. It's still an old city-most of its residential areas probably look much like they ded 50 years ago-and its second-biggest source of income, besides the port, is tourism. All this bothers the growth advocates a great deal; they like to attract the tourists, of course (the preservationists hate tourists) but they also like to wood industry and talk about how New Orieans is falling behind other Southern cities, a failure usually ascribed to a lack of dynamic leadership...
...said his first tasks will be to find more business for the Port of Boston, increase the Massport's borrowing capacity, improve the Port Authority's relationship with neighboring Logan Airport communities and stabilize the longshoreman problem...
...relationship between Logan Airport and its neighboring communities of East Boston and Winthrop, whose citizens "greatly dislike the Port Authority for some good reasons, and some bad, must be improved for political reasons; it is important to serve those people." Davis said...