Word: porting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kissinger and other recipients, such as William J. Ronan [formerly chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, now chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey], are also public officials...
...Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which owns and operates the New York City area public transit system. He quit last May when Rocky was no longer Governor. Apparently in the few days before Ronan was appointed by the Governors of New York and New Jersey as the unsalaried head of the Port Authority of those two states, Rockefeller canceled the Ronan loans, which then totaled $510,000, and paid a gift tax of $331,000 on this debt cancellation...
Both the Transit Authority and the Port Authority, which operates more than 20 bridges, tunnels, airports and freight terminals, do multimillion-dollar business with New York banks, including Chase Manhattan, headed by David Rockefeller. Asked what, if anything, he did in return for the gift, Ronan jauntily told reporters: "I said thank...
...Brass Bands. At Lisbon's port, the scene was much the same last week as the troopship Niassa arrived, carrying 1,400 soldiers from Guinea-Bissau. There were no brass bands, nor for that matter were there any high-ranking government officials. One by one, as the soldiers were demobilized on ship, they walked off carrying homemade guitars, cardboard boxes or cheap suitcases with their belongings. Many sported T shuts with pictures of Amilcar Cabral, the assassinated Guinea liberation leader against whose cause they had so recently been fighting. Some, but by no means all, were enthusiastic about returning...
About the only hope for the Great Lakes is that long-divided dock workers, terminal operators and port authorities have formed an alliance to remedy some problems that are not rooted in the very nature of the seaway. They are asking the U.S. Maritime Administration for the same subsidies that are collected by the coastal shipping interests that compete with them. They also want moderation of the "Ship American" policy, which is mandated by the Merchant Marine...