Word: charter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...woman who has challenged the lame but still powerful Marcos machine has few formal qualifications for her dragon-slaying role. Corazon Cojuangco Aquino is nonetheless fully at home with the local perquisites of privilege and authority. Her family and that of her martyred husband Benigno are charter members of the Philippine political and economic oligarchy that was pushed aside by Marcos. Corazon Aquino's father was a sugar baron, and her maternal grandfather was a Philippine Senator. One of her cousins, Eduardo Cojuangco Jr., is reckoned to be the President's closest economic crony. He is controller of a national...
However, candidates who have collected 232 alumni signatures can add their names to the ballot according to the alumni association charter. "Certificate candidates are a normal part of the system, we have had them in the past," said Nancy O. Sanler, associate for human resourses...
...Yale faculty member since 1977, Kanter was a charter member of the Graduate School of Organization and Management there. Before coming to Yale, she taught at Brandeis University and the Graduate School of Education
...plane's final owner, Miami-based Arrow Air, has a less than exemplary record. After inspections last year, the Federal Aviation Administration fined Arrow for faulty record keeping on its maintenance procedures, for using outdated service manuals and providing inadequate instruction to maintenance personnel. The small airline and charter service sometimes shuttles troops for the U.S Air Force's Military Airlift Command, but Arrow was flying the soldiers of the 101st on a contract with the ten-nation Multi-National Force and Observers organization...
...Assault) were part of a U.S. force of 779 troopers being rotated out of the Sinai, where they had manned observation posts and checkpoints to enforce Camp David Peace Treaty accords against Egyptian or Israeli military use of the region. Two hundred and fifty soldiers had arrived home by charter earlier in the month, and the final detachment was scheduled to arrive at Fort Campbell this week...