Word: charter
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Ferguson said she knew Dreyer was a member of the Charter Club, one of Princeton's 13 eating clubs. She said she was able to confirm with other club members that certain members of the club had sustained the long Fairfax tradition since its inception...
...Charter Club, comprised of 270 men and women, has declined to make an official comment, but club members have said they are unhappy that their club's long-standing prank has been exposed...
Only a small number of Charter Club members were involved in the Fairfax ploy, members said...
Under the charter, which goes into effect immediately after the results are certified by the national Commission on Elections, Aquino will continue serving as President until mid-1992. Because the country has been without a legislature since Aquino dissolved the National Assembly in March, elections for a new 24-member Senate and a 250-member House of Representatives have been scheduled for May. The document also contains sweeping guarantees of human rights, although it has been criticized by some legal observers for adhering too closely to Roman Catholic Church dogma. For example, the charter bans abortions outright...
...Mouy was impressed at once by Lacroix, because of his "complete knowledge of the past, not only in fashion but in art and architecture." Lacroix's charter was to design two collections a year, according to his impulse and vision. No strings were attached, least of all purse strings. His first sketches to the millinery atelier caused shock and consternation. "Sometimes it is necessary to disturb people in order to push forward," he observes. Since he refines his ideas slowly and deliberately, most of today's headliners have antecedents in earlier collections...