Word: porting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...made to their private homes. Until the Nixon Administration, those outlays were made by the Defense Department, which does not disclose the amounts or items and, like the GSA until now, may well have never bothered to add up what may have been spent on J.F.K.'s Hyannis Port home, Ike's Gettysburg farm or L.B.J.'s ranch...
Many businessmen would probably be happy to receive more goods than they ordered, so long as they did not have to pay money for them. Not René Debruyne, a grain and pet dealer in Lille. When his shipment arrived at the port of Dunkirk, he refused to accept custody. He had ordered 20,000 turtles, and his Moroccan supplier had generously thrown in an extra 5,000-but the shipment had arrived three months late. "The summer holidays are approaching," Debruyne explained, "and I couldn't dispose of that many turtles...
...husband Joe and her sons Joe Jr., Jack, Bobby and Teddy had all been Harvard men. In Harwich Port, Mass., at the class of '38's reunion, Rose Kennedy, 82, thanked Joe Jr.'s classmates for their gift of roses and a pewter bowl in memory of the Navy lieutenant whose fatal plane crash in 1944 had been the family's first violent tragedy...
...Horner is concerned, Radcliffe is a port of entry for women to Harvard. Once here, she says, both men and women are in the same boat: "I think all students should see themselves as Harvard undergraduates," Horner said in an interview last week...
...three different cities. There is the historic town built on 118 alluvial islands in a lagoon, plus two other communities on the mainland: the bleak, modern residential suburb of Mestre, which the daily Corriere della Sera calls a "delirium of concrete," and the huge, fume-filled industrial port of Marghera. Any action to help Venice often turns out to harm her ugly sisters. For example, Venice is sinking in part because the pumping of fresh water from artesian wells in Mestre and Marghera depletes the underground "cushion" of water on which Venice floats. If the pumping is stopped to save...