Word: porting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...consultant claimed a deduction on the expenses of operating his yacht, explained that he ran up a pennant with the number 1040 on it every time his yacht reached port, thereby advertising the fact he was open for income tax business. (IRS disagreed...
...passengers that stream through Puerto Rico's airport each year are bound to and from the Virgins, a cluster of tiny islands, the three largest of which were bought by the U.S. from Denmark in 1917. Principal Virgin is St. Thomas, whose harbor, Charlotte Amalie, is a free port, and hence the most popular stop for cruise ships in the Caribbean (tourists returning to the U.S. from the Virgins may also bring in $200 worth of purchases duty-free, instead of the regular $100 limit). St. Thomas has some spectacular, if sometimes remote, beaches; Herman Wouk lives there...
...land imports was intended to placate Canada, which currently exports about 89 million bbl. of oil a year to the U.S. But when he read through the fine print of the 1959 proclamation, Hofmokel, who emigrated to the U.S. from Germany in 1923 and has been director of the Port of Brownsville since 1936, decided that it could equally well be applied to Mexico. The only trouble was that there were no pipelines from Mexico into...
...philosophy that Yamasaki stirred up was kept mostly within the profession, but the public reaction to the building brought it into the open. And now Yamasaki has a commission that will soon make him the country's most hotly disputed architect. He has been picked to plan the Port of New York Authority's giant World Trade Center, to be built on Manhattan's Lower West Side, from where it will be a neighbor of that landmark of an earlier decade, the Woolworth Building (1911-13). So vast are the space demands of this project that...
...office of Minoru Yamasaki & Asso ciates, which now grosses $1,000,000 a year, is something else again. Since the Port Authority commission, his staff has grown to 70 associates, engineers, designers, modelmakers and secretaries, who include a Burmese, a Thai, a Filipino, a Chinese, two Japanese, two Latvians and a Briton. Yamasaki knows everyone by his first name, no matter how green or young the employee may be; and he insists on being called Yama in return. The office may be a madhouse, but no detail is ever too minor for Yamasaki's careful attention, whether...