Word: porting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact, no one wants Gaza. In its 19 years as overlord, Egypt did little but use the strip as a free port and cheap vacation spot for its soldiers. Today Cairo turns its back on Gaza by maintaining a barbed-wire border that Palestinians are not allowed to cross. Though some Gazans look to Jordan for guidance, King Hussein feels little responsibility for the territory. While West Bank Palestinians hold Jordanian passports, the nationality of Gazans is officially "undefined" on the travel documents they must obtain from Israel. Gaza has become such an afterthought that it is rarely mentioned...
...Sands, on the southern coast of England. The operation, known as Exercise Tiger, was a practice drill for the invasion of Normandy, just five weeks away. But things went badly. The night before, a British destroyer detailed to escort the convoy collided with another ship and was anchored at port, leaving the landing craft inadequately protected...
...next decade. Last week the Provisional Electoral Council invoked that stricture and ruled ineligible twelve of the 35 declared candidates in presidential elections scheduled for Nov. 29. Reaction was swift and violent. Night after night, armed gangs set fire to the electoral council's headquarters in downtown Port- au-Prince, to a store owned by a prominent council member, and to a plant where ballots were being printed. "We are determined to hold elections," declared the Rev. Alain Rocourt, council treasurer. But, he added, that goal now "may be extremely difficult if not impossible...
...impetus for Cambridge's 1970 law that established rent control was the 33 percent citywide rise in rents that year and the consequent eviction of numerous tenants from apartments in the Cambridge Port district. Indeed, the law explicitly cited the "emergency conditions" presented by the "substantial and increasing shortage of rental housing accommodations for families of low and moderate income and abnormally high rents...
...outlook for fair elections in Haiti grew darker last week with the murder of a presidential candidate, apparently by plainclothes police. Lawyer Yves Volel, 54, was shot in the head in front of police headquarters in Port-au- , Prince as he protested the plight of political prisoners held without charges. Journalists on the scene identified his attackers as detectives in the police force's notorious criminal-research bureau...