Word: porting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson enough trouble to allow an upset, right? Wrong--just a closer margin of victory, as Harvard (2-0) pulled out to an early lead and was never challenged, finishing its home course in 6:38.99. Dartmouth finished one length behind in 6:44.11 and the Engineers limped into port with a time...
Much of the outrage continued to focus on Exxon's reliance on Joseph Hazelwood, the Exxon Valdez skipper, who was apparently drunk while on duty. The company announced last week that tanker crews will now have to be on board at least four hours before leaving port -- a regulation Exxon Shipping President Frank Iarossi admits is designed to provide sobering-up time. But Hazelwood had an unacceptably high blood-alcohol level nine hours after the incident, and so would have been impaired even under the new rules. Moreover, despite Hazelwood's several arrests for drunken driving and treatment...
After six days of intermittent violence and confusion, the streets of the capital of Port-au-Prince were still tense late last week. Rival military troops maintained an uneasy standoff after nearly a week of exchanging shouted insults and machine-gun rounds. As the country slid toward chaos, a state of emergency was declared, independent radio stations were shut down and curfews were imposed...
...been avoided had the Coast Guard's radar been electronically linked to the harbor's vessel-traffic system so that an alarm would sound automatically if a tanker wandered out of its correct path. Such a state-of-the-art system is in operation in at least one foreign port. Says Curtis of the Oceanic Society: "This is not just a case of someone getting drunk. Because the industry did not take responsibility for state-of- the-art technology, the problem lies at its doorstep...
...Government detailing how it would handle a 200,000-bbl. spill in Prince ; William Sound. Alyeska did so only grudgingly, however, protesting, "It is highly unlikely that a spill of this magnitude would occur. Catastrophic events of this nature are further reduced because the majority of tankers calling on Port Valdez are of American registry and all of these are piloted by licensed masters or pilots...