Word: porting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...misery. Food deliveries to Ethiopia's 7 million drought victims have been disrupted, and in some cases stopped, by the fighting. Supply trucks were attacked and looted, and international relief workers fled. The fall of coastal Assab to Eritrean fighters two weeks ago temporarily closed the city's port on the Red Sea, one of the most important conduits...
...concept of Epcot is resonating through another fantastical project, which is being promoted off Port Canaveral, 40 miles to the east. Developers have proposed a $1 billion "city of tomorrow" that would be built on the world's largest cruise ship, capable of handling 5,600 passengers. The floating city, like Epcot, would mix pleasure and pedagogy: alongside the three hotel towers, casinos and villages aboard the nearly quarter-mile-long vessel would be a 100,000-volume library and a giant conference center. At sea or in port, Phoenix World City would be a "place where the best...
...Port Authority Bus Terminal in midtown Manhattan is a busy place -- a little too busy, as far as AT&T is concerned. In recent years the terminal's seedy lobby has become a favorite gathering spot for "phone scammers," con artists who sell overseas calls at cut rates using other people's telephone- charge-card numbers. In 1990 some $11 million in fraudulent calls originated from the bus terminal's pay phones alone, according to a report in the New York Daily News -- more than $30,000 worth every...
...barges floating for five months trying to find a port and not start to be aware of the need," Berry added...
Puerto Limon, Costa Rica's main Atlantic port, about 80 miles east of San Jose, appeared to be the hardest hit by the quake and aftershocks that rattled this small Central American nation beginning...