Word: porting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...agreed to pay a record $18 million in fines as part of a guilty plea to 21 felony counts of dumping waste oil and hazardous chemicals from its ships. The company "polluted the very environment on which its business relies," said Reno. "They dumped everywhere: at sea, in port, at sensitive environmental areas." The fines are the stiffest ever to be levied on a cruise line for polluting U.S. waters and they come on top of a $9 million fine Royal Caribbean agreed to pay in Miami on previous charges of illegal dumping...
...technical glitches, Earthmate mysteriously springs to life a few seconds after I get on the line with tech support. When Karyn pulls up in her blue Saturn, I fake a confident smile: "This will be really cool." She looks skeptical as I plug in the car adapter ($120 from Port, based in Norwalk, Conn.) that will power my Toshiba laptop from her cigarette lighter. But right on cue, a green dot pinpoints our starting location on a detailed map and then morphs into an arrow as we reach the West Side Highway...
...country's resources, and annual income averages $250 per person, compared with $3,320 for the rest of the Caribbean and Latin America. Drug traffickers have also targeted Haiti. DEA officials believe as much as 15 percent of the cocaine in the U.S. may be coming through it capital, Port-au-Prince. There is growing speculation that former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide could profit from the chaos: A total collapse may encourage his supporters to bring him back to power...
...operators are pitching packages so wealthy globe-trotters can watch the New Age dawn against decidedly Old Age backdrops--Yemen, for example. Jump aboard a private jet with R. Crusoe & Son of Chicago for one of its millennium sojourns, and you will also get to see Mali's river-port city of Mopti and the minimalist infrastructure of Timbuktu...
...MBTA's new Plymouth line takes visitors south to the heart of the Old Colony. Plymouth ($8 round trip), home of the infamous Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrim's first permanent settlement in the New World, remains a vintage seaside port...