Word: porting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Suez, once home to 268,000 people, now has 10,000. In Ismailia, nearly every building has been shattered by bombs or pocked by shell holes, and the city's 100,000 former citizens have joined 400,000 other onetime canalside residents as squatters in Cairo and Alexandria. Port Tewfik, at the southern end, needs virtually to be rebuilt. Aside from a few peasants tilling the land, the only population on the Egyptian side is military, including as many as seven divisions of infantry. On the eastern bank, the Israelis are deeply entrenched in shellproof bunkers...
...Cape of Good Hope more cheaply than the smaller tankers that used to ply the canal. The Trans-Israel Pipeline now transports 19 million tons of oil a year, from Eilat to Ashkelon. Egypt, with French and Italian aid, will begin building its own $210 million pipeline from Port Suez to Alexandria this summer...
They have been practicing all week to speed up their leg drive and for the first time in many years they have abandoned their characteristic German rigging for the more conventional standard rigging. Ted Nash has also improved the strength of his port side with the addition of Olympian Luther Jones, who while still at Penn, has been stroking the Vesper eight this spring...
...enough pump-out stations, interstate absurdities would remain. A boatman from New Jersey, which has no such law, is subject to being boarded and charged with an offense while passing through New York waters to Connecticut, which has no pump-out stations. A New Yorker leaving his home port on western Long Island Sound for Massachusetts or Maine is in violation of the law for the first few miles if he has an overboard flushing system. Yet he cannot cruise far beyond the Sound unless he has such a system. Meantime, critics say, his holding tank fills up and poses...
...granting permanent exemption. The Chrysler Building will soon lose its distinction as the world's tallest tax exemption to the 110-story World Trade Center, now rising, says Balk, "like a tombstone over the tip of downtown Manhattan." The twin towers are being built by the quasi-public Port of New York Authority, which is tax-exempt but will make a token payment for city services...