Word: porting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During the next three years, Dunn made nine visits to Fremantle and watched the city, once a thriving colonial port, regain its past vibrancy as it played host to thousands of spectators. After deciding in December that the four-hour plane trip from Melbourne was too time consuming, Dunn and his assistant, Di Webster packed their files and computers onto the Indian-Pacific train and opened a new office 1,700 miles away, in a Fremantle town house a few hundred yards from the marinas...
...customers is a little sad, though. In Fremantle's heyday, it must have been a good place to get a tattoo, and in sleepier summers, the brilliant new bars and lavender boutiques may look a little dreary to the U.S. Navy warships that regularly put in to this liberty port...
...trade imbalance. The Speaker insisted that the goal was reciprocity, doing unto other countries what they are doing to the U.S. The Administration's policies, he said, are ballooning the trade deficit, putting Americans out of work and making "junk metal and scrap paper" the leading exports from the Port of New York...
...Reagan administration announced the aircraft carrier USS Kennedy would begin a port call in Israel on Friday and that four of the Kennedy's escort warships had been ordered to sail for home...
Marines guarding the presidential palace fire on protesting farmers, and talks with Communist rebels collapse. -- In Beirut more Americans are taken hostage in a dramatic mass kidnaping following the arrest of a suspected terrorist in West Germany. -- Thousands flee north as Iranian shellfire turns the Iraqi port city of Basra into a pockmarked wasteland...