Word: porting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...issue in the crackdown are cab drivers who take advantage of peak airport periods to carry multiple fares at flat rates to the downtown area. Massachusetts Port Authority regulations prohibit both multiple fare trips and the setting of flat rates without metering...
...Jike the battle to halt a jetport that endangered Florida's Everglades National Park. Though a former Governor of Alaska and thought to be friendly to the oil interests, Hickel delayed construction of the ecologically questionable 773-mile oil pipeline from the state's North Slope to a southern port. He cracked down on oil drillers fouling the Gulf of Mexico, and even put eight kinds of whales on the official Endangered Species list before he got on it himself...
...capital itself, the Communists have been responsible for a wave of terrorist bombings. In the countryside, they seized the offensive after their setback last fall at Taing Kauk (TIME. Oct. 19). A month ago, they cut Route Four, the main road between Phnom-Penh and the deepwater port of Kompong Som, and the Cambodian army has not yet been able to reopen it. The result is a serious fuel shortage in Phnom-Penh. So far there has been no such scarcity of food, although the flow of refugees has increased the capital's population from 500.000 to almost...
...Russians are unmistakably on the verge of naval domination. They have helped develop the Indian port of Visakhapatnam and are adapting it for the possible use of Soviet submarines. On South Yemen's island of Socotra, which dominates the approach to the Red Sea, they are constructing a naval radio station and ammunition depot. On Mauritius they have been given harbor facilities. In addition, the Russians have signed fishing agreements with at least ten nations, stretching from Egypt to Indonesia, and along the East African coast they have set up a string of buoys which could be used...
...priority list for supplies and troop replacements, Slim's 800,000-man force often went to battle as lightly armed as guerrillas. The struggle went on for more than three years until May 1945, when the polyglot army of Indians, Nepalese, Africans and Britons captured the port of Rangoon, virtually ending the Burma campaign...