Word: charter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...outcome was never in doubt. The 3,000 delegates of the National People's Congress, the Chinese parliament that convenes for about two weeks every year, unanimously approved a new constitution late last week. The lack of suspense belied the significance of the vote: the latest charter, the fourth since the Communist takeover in 1949, sweeps away many of the last vestiges of the late Mao Tse-tung and institutionalizes the reforms of Chinese Leader Deng Xiaoping...
...they argue a convincing case for the generalization. The most-often cited secondary sources on SDS were written by people who openly proclaim their sympathy for, if not actual participation in, some aspect of the New Left. Kirkpatrick Sale, author of the meticulously detailed SDS, describes the group's charter members as "a remarkable group of people... committed, energetic, perceptive, political, warm... charismatic, articulate, and (many) good-looking...
...saga began in 1974 when--a day after his wedding--his wife Avital was expelled from the country, while his application to emigrate was denied. Two years later, Shcharansky joined the underground Helsinki Watchdog Committee, which attempted to monitor Soviet violations of the Helsinki Final Act, a human rights charter signed a year earlier by 35 countries, including the U.S.S.R. If honored, that country would have permitted Shcharansky, along with other citizens with family in other countries to emigrate...
...budget. Says City Councilman Ernani Bernardi, who makes only $43,923 a year: "It's a vicious cycle. It has to stop." According to him, the bloated wage scale results from a lack of fiscal restraint by the council and an arcane "prevailing wage clause" in the city charter, dating from 1925. In practice, the prevailing wage clause, requiring the city to pay its employees salaries at least equal to comparable jobs in the private sector, has become the rock-bottom minimum from which wage demands spiral upward...
...floor office in the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, the lean, blue-jeaned mathematician settled the old wager: he found a way to unravel the original Stanford system. The code Shamir broke after four years of hard work was no Buck Rogers-Dick Tracy cipher. It was a charter member, along with the M.I.T. code, of the new "public key" family of encryption schemes, so called because one of their secret code words, or keys, can be made public without giving anything away...