Word: ported
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...likely to get worse before they get better. In the past 30 years, the population has soared from 18 million to 36 million. About a fifth of the country's population are now clustered in and around Cairo; many newcomers are refugees from such once-prosperous cities as Port Said and Ismailia whose homes were ruined after the Six-Day War. Cairo is so overcrowded that it is approaching what Egyptian officials call "Calcutta-ization." At least 60% of its residents have no electricity, water and sewage. A badly managed distribution system has caused long queues and high prices...
...Egypt is Osman Ahmed Osman, 57, the principal contractor on the Aswan High Dam, who after the war was named Minister of Housing and Reconstruction by Sadat. Osman's first assignment is a $6 billion reconstruction of the Canal Zone, including the cities of Suez, Port Said, Ismailia and reclamation of land on both sides of the canal. Once that is completed, Osman wants to build a system of concrete culverts beneath the Suez Canal (which is now being cleared by teams of Egyptian, U.S. and British divers) that will carry water from the Nile to irrigate the Sinai...
...report, made public last week, concluded that the firm had acted "in a manner consistent with the preservation of its professional integrity" in the preparation of a study for the Massachusetts Port Authority...
Phillip Burling, head of the Cambridge Civic Association's committee on the Kennedy Library, said yesterday a General Services Administration investigation of Maguire's study for the Massachusetts Port Authority has left him "totally unpersuaded...
...report, although basically favorable to Maguire, does fault the firm on the preparation of a report for the Massachusetts Port Authority on the feasibility of a new Boston shipping facility...