Word: ported
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...refugees have been repatriated through Jordan, most of them Egyptians traveling by plane and ship from the port of Aqaba. The number of daily flights from Amman has doubled from 50 to 100 in an effort to evacuate the refugees. India is averaging six flights a day, while Pakistan, which has resettled about 7,000 citizens, sent a passenger ship to Aqaba last week. The International Organization for Migration has launched a $50 million airlift program to aid Sri Lankans, Bangladeshis and others whose impoverished countries have offered little help...
Central Square was born as a commercial area in 1793 when the West Boston Bridge was opened providing a new port of entry into Boston for people bringing goods from western Massachusetts. The district grew as travellers stopped in Cambridge for the night before entering Boston...
...Donald, 39, called their five-year-old son Joe in Omaha to tell him that he and his year-old brother Phillip would have to prolong a visit with their grandmother. The next day Christie and Donald flew to Wilmington, N.C., with an Army reserve unit called to active port-security duty, leaving family and friends to harvest the corn and soybeans from their 200-acre farm in October...
Rather than initiate a military conflict, the U.S. and its allies hope to resolve the crisis by bolstering the embargo's effectiveness. This could be accomplished by warning Jordan that if it does not stop supplies from reaching Iraq through its port at Aqaba, the U.S. will stop shipments from reaching % Jordan itself. As an inducement to King Hussein, oil-rich Arab states along with oil-hungry Japan have offered to make up any losses Jordan would suffer from such actions. The U.S. could also pledge to protect Jordan from any Iraqi military reprisal...
...used in the production of chemical weapons. Other Administration officials say the countries responsible include Libya, Yemen, Taiwan and South Africa. Yemen had earlier indicated that it would live up to its reluctant promise to abide by the embargo. It did allow one Iraqi tanker to unload at the port of Aden, but in response to international pressure it later refused to allow two others to discharge their cargo...