Word: ported
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...foundation of the new plan is a Saudi Arabian government take of $10.12 on the average barrel of Arabi an light crude shipped out of the port of Ras Tanura; market prices and government revenues on other grades from other countries will be keyed to that figure. Buyers of oil from Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates will pay no more than now; those countries, in effect, went up to the new prices in November. But buyers of crude from the other ten OPEC nations, including Iran, Kuwait and Venezuela, will pay to the governments of those nations...
Divorced. Alan Jay Lerner, 56, Broadway lyricist-laureate (My Fair Lady, Camelot); By Karen Gundersen Lerner, 39, former Newsweek reporter who met him during a 1965 interview; after eight years of marriage, two years of separation, no children; in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Gundersen was Lerner's fifth wife...
...better food, but the British jail is more comfortable). There were also three sets of laws (French, British and native) and three governing units, including the joint administration that operates under the authority of the other two. When the French moved to new hilltop offices in the capital of Port Vila Oust Vila to the British), it was discovered that the Tricolor was flying higher than the Union Jack, and so the French had to trim their flagpole. Out of such contretemps, the condominium acquired the nickname of Pandemonium...
Despite the tribal ways, the capital of Port Vila is being rapidly transformed into a flourishing business center. Reason: when political tensions were rising in the Caribbean during the late 1960s, a number of financiers discovered that the New Hebrides were both peaceful and taxfree. In the last five years, 950 overseas companies have moved in, including eight active banks and representatives of 47 others...
Ford's most important stop was with Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev at an isolated compound of wooden and concrete dachas amid oak, birch and pine trees about 15 miles north of Vladivostok, home port for the Soviet Pacific fleet. Soon after reaching the camp by special train from the military airfield where Air Force One had landed, Ford and Brezhnev sat down in a conference room overlooking Amur Bay for talks that lasted all afternoon, into the evening and part of the next morning...