The Aquila refinery near Trieste in northern Italy would broaden the geographical scope of Montedison's petroleum-related operations.
Even the women. But the people of Trieste and Rijeka are not so different: they are victims of a common, not-so-distant history.
Carnival recently signed a $700 million contract with Fincantierri Shipyards of Trieste, Italy, for three vessels for its Holland America Line subsidiary.
Imagine a city on the margins of western Europe - Trieste, Helsinki or Marseilles, perhaps - perpetually beseiged by hoardes of frantic people. Victims of social and economic collapse in their own countries to the east and south, they have little to lose.
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an Iron Curtain has descended across the Continent." The 10-foot-high sculpture has sections cut out, in the shape of a man and woman, through which people can walk.
A few years later, still sloshing through an uneventful and melancholic life in Trieste, she returns home one night to find Paolo and their son.
Austrians see this territory extending from Krakow to Trieste, from Salzburg to Budapest and Belgrade.
Mr Bossi could well have won Genoa, Trieste and Venice if the League had not stood alone.
Airports that closed temporarily included those at Milan, Venice, Pisa, Trieste, Rimini and Ancona.
They did, of course - everyone in Trieste knows James Joyce.
The party also managed to retain its own identity separate from that of Forza Italia, standing separately in Trieste and parts of the Marche.
H took over the "Figaro" when Patrice Chereau dropped out for a film commitment. Menotti had declared that he'd stage only his own operas after the "Parsifal" he directed last summer in Trieste.
The tremor, which lasted about 15 seconds, was felt from Trieste, near the Yugoslav border, to Bologna about 240 miles to the west.