Word: porting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nothing has been done to light a candle of hope that sits in the nation's backyard -the Alaska pipeline. The oil reserves under Alaska's North Slope remain as frozen in controversy today as they were when the 789-mile pipeline to the ice-free port of Valdez was first proposed in 1969. The line has been stalled in part by environmental issues. Tanker traffic would almost certainly result in oil spillage and leaks from the pipeline-it would traverse three earthquake zones-could endanger the ecology of the arctic tundra. Yet the conservationists' biggest weapon...
...will risk such action without orders from the bridge. Even less likely is it that the guilty subordinates will go scot free and even receive the captain's protection, having so jeopardized the ship's safety. But no captain enjoys the Bourbon inviolability of Mr. Nixon, once he reaches port...
...from the area for security reasons, but the costs of development are so staggering that Moscow is now actively courting foreign investment and technological know-how. It is negotiating with Japan for help in financing a $3 billion, 4,380-mile pipeline from the Tyumen oilfields to the Pacific port of Nakhodka; and it is trying hard to get long-term U.S. credits...
NADYM, a gas field discovered four years ago, contains 6 trillion cubic meters of gas, equivalent to three-quarters of U.S. reserves. A river port, rail spur and 600-mile gas line have been carved out of the desolate tundra, and by 1978 gas will be sent to West Europe. Three American companies are considering building a $7 billion pipeline 2,000 miles to Murmansk for shipment of liquefied gas to the U.S. East Coast...
...provide expertise, Gaddafi has had to turn to the foreigners he basically dislikes: Yugoslavs for a new port at Misurata; Italians for road building; Britons for a new airport at Tripoli; Egyptians to advise his ministries, run his courts and train his 22,000-man army; and, of course, Americans to pump oil. The Egyptians, who have always been arrogant and patronizing toward Libyans, are as unpopular as ever -and there are now 220,000 of them in the country. But nobody is as unpopular at the moment as the Americans. When a Libyan student asked Gaddafi this month...