Word: ported
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fast approaching Revolutionary War, the Register never fulfilled its original purpose but the document has survived as a treasury of information for historians. Although Bailyn relies heavily on the data from these ledgers, he is careful to ennumerate the limitations of relying on the record-keeping of local port officials...
With this disclaimer, Bailyn counts exactly 9868 individuals who officially left for the colonies between December 1773 and March 1776. Using a variety of other sources including American port entry legers, he estimates that the total emigration to the colonies during these few months on the eve of the Revolution was between...
...plant in Port Elizabeth, already one of South Africa's most economically depressed cities, striking workers had sought severance pay from departing GM and two seats on the new board. The walkout ended when GM threatened to fire employees who did not return to work. Although 785 of the 1,800 strikers eventually lost their jobs, GM said that most of those dismissed could reapply...
Even as the tales of covert diplomacy continued to emanate from Washington, Tehran and elsewhere, the debilitating and indecisive six-year-old war between Iran and Iraq dragged on. Twice last week Iraqi warplanes struck deep into Iran, hitting first a petrochemical complex at the port of Bandar Khomeini and then an oil refinery and a power station in Isfahan. In response, Tehran Radio announced that Iranian artillery units would retaliate by shelling targets in southern Iraq. The station warned Iraqi civilians to evacuate Basra, Iraq's second largest city, as well as Umm Qasr, at the head...
...later Chief of State Lieut. General Henri Namphy made an emotional bid to restore confidence in the Port-au-Prince government. "I have lived in my flesh your anguish over the possible return of the old system," he declared. Coincidentally, the fledgling Duvalierist party was disbanded. To further counter discontent with the sluggish pace of change, Namphy will travel to Miami to seek badly needed investment at the annual Caribbean Conference this week...