Word: charter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...close of last night's session, Councilor David Sullivan enacted a charter right--a move that ends all debate on an issue for at least one week--on three consecutive late resolutions. Vellucci and Councilor Walter J. Sullivan had each introduced legislation to allow tenants at 36-42 Linnaean St. and 4-6 Washington Ave. to convert their apartments to condominiums without removal permits from the city's rent control board...
...engaged with the Agnew resignation, Dinitz informed Major General Brent Scowcroft, who had replaced Haig as my deputy, that Israel's promised replacement equipment exceeded the capacity of the seven jets of the El Al air fleet. It was decided that Israel should be permitted to employ private air charter companies. That turned out to be a fiasco. No charter company was eager to court an Arab boycott or to risk its planes. The Defense Department could have brought pressure on the charter companies, but felt no urgency because it estimated that Israel still had stocks for two weeks...
Smith received a grade of C on the paper, which was almost a charter for the company he founded: Memphis-based Federal Express. Now almost ten years old, Federal Express has grown to handle 100,000 parcels and letters nightly. Last year's revenues reached nearly $600 million, and profits totaled $59.3 million...
Launched in 1966 as a charter carrier, Laker Airways jolted competitors in 1977 with its Skytrain round-trip service between New York and London for $236, or almost $200 less than the best excursion fare available on regularly scheduled airlines. Beamed Laker: "This puts transatlantic air travel in the pocket of the workingman." Later many other carriers matched his low prices...
...gentlemanly." "We never particularly contended it was," Roberts replied. The Bulletin launched a morning edition in 1978, but by then the momentum had shifted decisively. When the Inquirer grabbed the circulation lead in 1980, the Bulletin was already listing badly. Says former Publisher William McLean III of Charter's last-ditch attempts to save the paper: "They thought they could rescue it, but they had the same problems we did. Nothing could be done...