Word: portes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ultranationalists in Brazil last week sought to block M. A. Hanna's plans to mid a $25 million iron ore port, even though the government seemed deter mined to approve the deal, and the Supreme Court will rule soon on whether any foreign company has a right to mine in Brazil. In Australia, where U.S companies are investing at the rate of $4,000,000 a week, the government is under mounting pressure to require part local ownership of foreign subsidiaries At a special luncheon in Paris, the creme de la creme of France's business leaders listened...
...their first rain in six weeks"). Univac awarded second place to the phrase "violence flared," third place to "flatly denied." The rest of the runners-up: "racially troubled," "voters marched to the polls," "jampacked," "usually reliable sources," "backlash," "kickoff" (as applied to anything but a football game), "limped into port," "gutted by fire,-" "death and destruction," "riot-torn," "strife-torn," "tinder-dry woodlands," "in the wake of," "no immediate comment," "guarded optimism," "-wise" (as in percentage-wise...
...Dutch treat will be used to rebuild Indonesia's Dutch-equipped railway system and sugar and tin industries-crippled when the flow of replacement parts from The Netherlands was halted-and to expand and improve inadequate port and airport facilities...
Indonesia has responded with a $10.5 million order for trucks and buses from DAF, the Dutch automaker, and a $22 million contract for Verolme United Shipyards to construct Indonesian port facilities. Meantime, The Netherlands is again assuming its traditional role as Indonesia's marketplace...
...guarantee an S.R.O. crowd for their execution, Duvalier ordered all businesses closed and schools let out; backlands peasants were trucked into Port-au-Prince. As TV cameras recorded the scene, a black and white Jeep pulled up to the cemetery, and out stepped the two victims. They were tied tightly to two pine stakes. "Traditional proceedings were scrupulously respected," announced Le Matin, a government newspaper. "There were three volleys of Springfields, and submachine guns, and three coups de grace." After which, the crowd was marched to the National Palace, where Duvalier, acceding to its "solicitations," appeared on the balcony...