Word: porting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...problems begin at Massawa, the Red Sea port where hundreds of dock workers labor night and day to unload grain and other food destined for Ethiopia's hungry millions. Cranes are in short supply, as are trailers to store the grain. While wheat from the U.S. and Canada usually comes in bags, much of the grain from Europe does not and thus takes longer to unload. Grain sometimes arrives soaked with water; a recent shipment of milk powder was contaminated...
Something disturbing is going on in Florida. Parodying the rest of the map, ambitious little villages are swiping one another's ball clubs. Just this spring the Cincinnati Reds have moved from Tampa to Plant City, the New York Mets from St. Petersburg to Port St. Lucie and the Kansas City Royals from Fort Myers to an amusement park in Haines City once known as Circus World and now identified as Boardwalk & Baseball...
...there is still charm in Florida. Like the little girl singing the opening-day anthem at Port St. Lucie with a finger jammed in each ear; and Miss Clearwater presiding over the Phillies' inaugural in her sash and tiara; and Bobby Bonds' son Barry, a young outfielder for the Pirates, remarking in the dugout, "I liked most of my father's teams: the Cards, Yanks, Angels, White Sox, Rangers, Cubs, Giants -- not Cleveland." And the real-life pitcher Jack Armstrong, who like his namesake from the 1930s radio series seems to incarnate the all-American...
...port is shut down," said one dock worker. "We won't accept anything less than what they owe us," he said, asking not to be identified for fear of reprisal. "We'll wait here for [the army...
Four shipping containers were stacked across the port entrance. They formed a barricade nearly 20 feet high and no yehicles or machinery were passing...