Word: porting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...workers grow restless in the 24-hour daylight. Another idle crew waits 60 miles south, near Galbraith Lake, where $4,500,000 worth of unused Cat tractors, bulldozers, graders and pickup trucks stand in precise rows, as in a toyshop at Christmas. Hundreds of miles farther south, at the port of Valdez, workers are beginning to coat stacks of rusting pipeline-400 miles of it-to prevent corrosion. Three years after one of history's richest oil discoveries, production is as bogged down as a truck convoy in tundra. The cause of the delay is the Department of Interior...
...others were Jersey City Council President Thomas Flaherty, Port of New York Authority Commissioner William Sternkopf, Hudson County Treasurer Joseph Stapleton, Hudson County Freeholder and Democratic County Chairman Walter Wolfe, Jersey City Purchasing Agent Bernard Murphy, Hudson County Police Chief Fred Kropke and Jersey City Business Administrator Philip Kunz...
...arrivals to cheap beds. Free rock concerts, orchestra recitals and open-air theater performances are held in the city. A municipally published multilanguage newspaper for visiting youths, Use It, contains the latest on what to do-and not to do-in Copenhagen. From a recent issue: "Bathing in the port and its canals, as well as in the ancient moats and in public lakes, is forbidden, and anyhow the water is not very tempting...
...local bank. Settling in Hong Kong, he opened a small import-export business. Relatives urged him to invest in real estate, but he had learned the hard way to prefer investments that were not tied down or vulnerable to government takeover. "I wanted movable assets," he explains. Without knowing port from starboard, he scraped together the down payment for a Liberty-type freighter...
...addition to this anatomical legacy, Clementine gets Charnel Castle, a moldering shambles with a bottomless wine cellar. It is a timeless madhouse, swarming with unpaid servants and port-guzzling visitors. Its bedrooms are equipped with convenient women of various shapes and attributes. Rose, for instance, has webbed feet...