Word: charter
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...frolic that got out of hand" and professed shock that "no one had the ability, desire or guts to intervene." Denouncing the sentences as "totally inappropriate," Defense Attorney Kim Otis claimed that his clients, Kenneth Simpler, 20, and Lisa Napolitano, 21, the president and social chairman of the Princeton Charter Club, had been unfairly singled out as scapegoats. Princeton's President Harold Shapiro, while condemning the drinking incident, also criticized what he called "disproportionate and excessive" sentences...
...Moore was paroled from Minnesota's Sandstone federal prison in 1986 after serving four years of an eleven-year term for fraud. In 1982 he created a Chicago "bank," actually a telephone answering service, and issued himself letters of personal credit. So convincing were these documents that ten air- charter companies leased planes to Moore, who used them to take off on cross- country shopping sprees. By the time he was caught, he owed $180,000 to the charter firms...
...Council did not take action on Walsh's resolution because Councillor Thomas W. Danehy exercised his charter right to automatically postpone a vote to the next meeting, which is scheduled for June...
Councillor William H. Walsh delayed voting on the resolution at last week's meeting by exercising a "Charter Right." This privilege allows any Councillor to delay a vote for one week to gain information on the proposal...
European filmmakers often view Hollywood as an artistic Alcatraz where slaves to convention are blinkered from the ferment of the outside world. In the '60s, as a prodigy auteur with the smartest, most restless camera style in the business, Bertolucci was a charter member of the first generation of directors who were bred to break the rules of narrative film. Before the Revolution (1964) and The Conformist (1970) swooned with infatuation for radical politics and complex storytelling. With Last Tango in Paris (1972), Bertolucci looked to have conquered Hollywood on his own terms. Its desperate, soft-core...