Word: porting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...violence was not limited to Johannesburg. In Umlazi, a black township outside the Indian Ocean port of Durban, riot police hunting suspected terrorists surrounded a house and ordered the occupants to leave the building. One man came out shooting, officials said, but police gunfire drove him back inside. Another man opened fire from a window and was shot dead. Police flung hand grenades into the house and set it afire. Inside the ruins they found two corpses and a cache of AK-47 assault rifles...
Ancient mariners told of the Flying Dutchman, a phantom ship eternally doomed to sail the waters around the Cape of Good Hope, never making port. In the Gulf of Mexico last week the real-life vessel Mobro 4,000 seemed as damned as the Dutchman as it searched in vain for a friendly harbor. Southern ports had good reason for turning away the bereft barge: it was loaded with 3,168 tons of rancid, fly-infested trash from New York...
...Poland after his father was sent to a concentration camp by the Germans during World War II. Only two months after his release in 1945, Walesa's father died. At 24, the young rural mechanic, one of seven children, grew bored with his job and moved to the Baltic port of Gdansk, where he became a shipyard electrician. He describes himself as a typical peasant worker, "not really belonging to the city, nor the countryside, a wage earner in appearance only, profoundly attached to his farm." Such men and women were pragmatic, practicing Catholics with little interest in the abstract...
...year higher than $650 million -- all outside Pennzoil's direct grasp. That wrinkle took Chairman Liedtke by surprise. As he told TIME, "I thought that when we were suing Texaco, we were suing all of Texaco." Liedtke has claimed that Texaco illegally transferred assets, including its sprawling refinery in Port Arthur, Texas, to the operating companies during the litigation to prevent their seizure...
...island psychology and the term Gulag archipelago. The prison ships were crowded hellholes in which thousands died. One survivor's memoir recounts that the prison ship Dzhurma was caught in the autumn ice in 1933 while trying to get to the mouth of the Kolyma River. When it reached port the following spring, it carried only crew and guards. All 12,000 prisoners were missing, left dead...