Word: portly
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...junk dealer ("I buy troubled stuff and turn it around," he says), has a history of contrarian investments. When he purchased 807 miles of nationally owned railway stock from the Canadian government for $11 million in 1997, he also picked up, for the token sum of roughly $8, the port of Churchill, Manitoba...
...Hudson bay trading post built in 1689 put Churchill on the map, but today polar bears outnumber humans and the town's main businesses are tourism and hunting. It is the nearest port to the cereal fields of central Canada, however, and when the ice melts, it could find itself at the nexus of the first new trade route since the construction of the Panama and Suez canals...
...said of Travia. But Dustin T. Clausen ’08 said, “It’s not going to change my behavior.” He said that the “allure” of the talk, entitled, “Pizza, Port, and Pop,” wasn’t its content. “The pizza,” Clausen added, “was delicious.” The choice to serve port at an event concerning alcohol abuse struck many in attendance as strange, including Travia. “It?...
...Concerns about the group are connected to an annual maritime festival called Seafair, which draws a flotilla of Navy ships - and, increasingly, antiwar protesters - to this port city each year. Documents released through an earlier, more narrow Freedom of Information Act request by the local ACLU chapter and first reported on in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer showed that the Raging Grannies had been monitored by the FBI in 2003 out of concern that the Grannies, usually passive protesters, might be connected to a more aggressive group suspected of planning to chain themselves to navy ships as an act of civil...
...40F below zero, cleanup crews have contained the spill and are trucking in fresh snow to absorb whatever oil can't be vacuumed up. BP hopes to recover 90% of the lost crude, which it will funnel back into the pipeline and pump to the port of Valdez for sale on the open market...