Word: porting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Defense Rests. In Port Moresby, New Guinea, Supreme Court officials noticed that Defendant Bia Umeme was missing, found him fast asleep on the floor of the prisoner's dock...
Died. Dr. Stenio Vincent, 93, golden-tongued, learned, onetime (1930-41) President of Haiti, who won popular backing by denouncing the 19-year U.S. Marine occupation, finally (1934) persuaded President Roosevelt to withdraw the Marines; in Port-au-Prince, Haiti...
...church, considering it a bastion of the opposition. Most of the priests are white, French-born and close to the mulatto upper classes that strongly oppose Duvalier, a Catholic himself but with close political links to the voodoo priesthood. When 1,000 priests, nuns and churchgoers gathered in Port-au-Prince's Notre Dame Cathedral to protest the expulsion order, Clement Barbot, the President's cold-eyed secretary and secret police chief, led a gang of bullyboys into the cathedral on a wild, baton-swinging charge, arrested...
...Manhattan's Committee for an International Institute: a three-month language and culture course for as many as 300 executives and their wives at a time. No campus could be more symbolic than the one the committee is trying to buy: New York Bay's now abandoned port of entry for wave on wave of foreign immigrants-Ellis Island...
...solution would be to unshackle the fuel market. That would probably cut production of the uneconomic coal industry, rather than the fast-growing, efficient oil industry. West German miners dig only two tons a day (v. twelve tons for a U.S. miner), and domestic coal still sells in German port cities for $4.75 a ton more than U.S. coal, despite the tariff. West German coal production of 132 million tons a year far exceeds its needs, and its exports are heading down because surpluses in France run to 11,100,000 tons, in Belgium to 7,900,000 tons...