Word: porting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Brian Pethica already knows the U.S. well, and he has no problems political or financial. Now 49, a research chemist at the Unilever Corp. in Port Sunlight, near Liverpool, Pethica has been crossing the Atlantic at least once a year since 1958, and he likes what he calls "the entrepreneurial attitude." But he wants to teach. Says he: "The university system in Britain seems somehow less open, more rigid, more hierarchical. In the U.S. there is a broad diversity of systems, which allows you to educate everyone as far as he can go. That opportunity to broaden the possibilities...
...March 31. King approves first of parliamentary reprisals known as "Intolerable Acts." To punish Boston for Tea Party, the port is to be closed until colonial authorities pay ? 18,000 for destroyed tea. Later measures include ban on any public meetings without Governor's approval and a requirement that British troops be housed in private dwellings wherever necessary. May 17. Rhode Island issues first call for a colonial Congress, soon echoed by Pennsylvania and New York. Sept 5. First Continental Congress meets in Philadelphia for nearly two months and issues a declaration of ten "rights," including "life, liberty...
...British forces burn Virginia port of Norfolk...
...northern entrance to Charles Town Harbor, but its palmetto-wood walls are still incomplete on the shoreward sides, where they stand only 7 feet high. The British would seize the fort and garrison it, Clinton decided, and thus interdict all trade and privateer traffic to and from the busiest port south of Philadelphia...
...Indeed, despite the present blockade imposed by London, substantial clandestine British-American trade is going on even now. This flows mostly through Amsterdam and the West Indies, particularly the Dutch island of St. Eustatius, which is taking advantage of its unexpected role as go-between to become the busiest port in the world, with more than 250 ships arriving each week...