Word: portly
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...other companies and investors in the U.S. were worried about how the quake would affect their networks. The main risk is in the near collapse of a major export center and container port. Kobe handled 2.7 million containers a year; it was the hub for 31% of all shipments to and from the U.S. ``A lot of goods that normally flow smoothly,'' says Stephen Roach, co-director of global economics at Morgan Stanley in New York City, ``are going through a major bottleneck. This could have ripple effects...
...assistance from 60 countries, the U.N. and the World Health Organization poured in, but some were subjectedto endless bureaucratic wrangling. Examples: foreign doctors were rebuffed at first because they did not have Japanese licenses; Swiss sniffer dogs were threatened with quarantine by the Agriculture Ministry. Conditions in the stricken port city, however, are improving, with 18,600 emergency housing units under way, thousands of workmen busily laying new telephone and electric cables and, most cheering of all, the reopening of Kobe's schools. Middle East: Another Bombing A Palestinian suicide bombing in the heart of Israel took the lives...
...which recognized the political and economic rights of children. Grant received the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1994. DIED. ROSE FITZGERALD KENNEDY, 104, matriarch of America's foremost political family, whose indomitable will and unshakable faith sustained her through the many tragedies that befell the Kennedys; in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts. The oldest daughter of Boston Mayor John F. (``Honey Fitz'') Fitzgerald, Rose attended convent schools in Boston and Europe. At 24 she married Joseph P. Kennedy, with whom she had nine children in 18 years. While Joe revealed a facility with money that was to make him a millionaire...
...quake had clearly wrought damage on a grand scale to a port that handled 2.7 million containers last year, including 31% of all exports to the U.S. While shipping lines rerouted their cargo via other ports, Kobe-area manufacturers of products from steel to flat-panel computer displays studied ways to get their goods on the road. Commented Yasuo Iwamoto, marketing chief for the Kobe Port Authority: ``The fact is that Kobe was the container center for Japan. In the long term, I doubt that other ports can take the load we divert to them...
Full repairs of the port seemed likely to consume on the order of $9 billion and take up to two years. If it all began to look like some colossal punishment, Muammar Gaddafi was not above gloating. Terming the catastrophe ``God's revenge,'' the isolated Libyan leader declared, ``We were expecting it, and we prayed to God to do this to Japan,'' a country that he said ``always rushes to serve the devilish interests...