Word: ported
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nationwide strike ended last week, but Haitians continued to demonstrate against the government of Lieut. General Henri Namphy. Protesters marched on the National Palace, waving branches symbolizing the "uprooting" of the regime. Four days later 10,000 snaked through Port-au-Prince chanting "Namphy...
...least 16 people were killed in and around the southern port of Pusan, the country's second largest city. Strong winds triggered high waves that crashed into the port, and more than 50 fishing boats were sunk or damaged...
...want the audience to go to sleep," explains Playwright Mark Giesser. Finally, on Constitution Day, Sept. 17, the Constitution itself -- the U.S.S. Constitution, that is -- will leave her < berth and be pulled by tugs to the center of Boston harbor, where she will be saluted by every ship in port...
...anchor." (A foreigner's elegant remark. Others suspect that the Constitution has entirely too much anchor -- too many checks and balances -- to make any headway at all.) The sociologist David Riesman likens the Constitution to the shallow keel of the national ferryboat, on which the passengers keep shifting from port to starboard and back again. One might also suggest the image of a trimaran -- a craft with three hulls (Legislative, Executive and Judicial) that is both stable and fast. Harvard's Paul Freund likes to think of the whole arrangement as a symphony orchestra or a jazz band...
...threat of some Iranian response "quite high." This prompted House Armed Services Committee Chairman Les Aspin to complain that the Administration clearly had not figured out what it was getting into. There are suspicions that Iran has set up mines in the waters of Kuwait's primary oil port at Al-Ahmadi. Should a ship hit one of them, said Aspin, it would be "something on which there are no Iranian fingerprints." Thus the U.S. would be less able to retaliate. Another threat is the Chinese-made Silkworm missiles that Iran is deploying along the Strait of Hormuz. They have...