Word: porting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attack materializes, Somoza is not likely to lead it. At week's end the exiled dictator was reportedly expelled from the Bahamian island of Grand Exuma, his latest port of call on a Caribbean cruise...
...hated land of apartheid; many of the delicacies served at the Commonwealth banquets also came from there. For Zambia, the Tazara Railway, built by the Chinese to open up a land link from Zambia through Tanzania to the Indian Ocean, is almost a writeoff. The railway works, but the port of Bares Salaam cannot cope with the tonnage of copper that Zambia would like to export by that route. The result is that to export its copper Zambia has been paying heavy transport and port costs to Tanzania. At one point, Zambia claimed that 70,000 tons of copper were...
Because various groups have blocked the projects, the U.S. has built no oil refinery on the East Coast since 1957, no deepwater port that can take a 300,000-ton tanker. Given the power of the many single-issue factions, given the complexity of the restrictions, how can the U.S. ever develop its energy...
Ramseur said he saw the settlement not just as a victory for tenants in these buildings, but as "a victory for all Harvard tenants, and the tenants on Mission Hill and Cambridge Port who are resisting Harvard expansion. This victory shows that organized tenants can win against Harvard...
...lighter Sierra and struck a glancing blow. Explained Watson: "I tried to take off the harpoon." Then, after making a 360° turn, the avenging trawler opened up to twelve knots and hit again, this time punching a gaping hole amidships. Taking on water, Sierra limped into port, and, according to Watson, should be out of action for months, if not permanently. Watson's own ship suffered nothing more than a battered...