Word: charter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bulletin's fourth-floor newsroom, like those at the bedside of a dying family member, did not include surprise. The 134-year-old afternoon daily, once the nation's largest, had been living with the bleak diagnosis for more than a year. In December, its owners, the Charter Company of Jacksonville, finally put it up for sale. Last week, with no takers to be found, and awash in red ink, the Bulletin became another logo in the graveyard of big-city newspapers. Said Charter Communications President J.P. Smith Jr.: "In the final analysis, the paper was unable...
...Charter had promised to keep the presses rolling as long as serious talks with prospective buyers were under way. The city pitched in some brotherly love with a SAVE OUR BULLETIN campaign: on Jan. 18, 300 loyal supporters sporting S.O.B. buttons held a candlelight vigil in front of the paper's offices in subfreezing weather, and Mayor William Green offered tax breaks and low-interest loans to help finance a purchase. But in the end, Charter could not even give the paper away. Its terms: $29.5 million in promissory notes, and guaranteed payment of $12 million in severance costs...
...outgoing as her husband is shy. "If I didn't know better," she says, "I'd think he was a California boy. Blond hair, blue eyes-and unbelievably laid back." She is a United stewardess, with no plans to stop flying. They met on a Notre Dame charter flight to Los Angeles, his second-to-last college game against U.S.C...
...council passed a motion asking Healy to expedite the negotiation process but declined to discuss specifics of the city's latest offer to the nurses because the city charter prohibits the council from entering collective bargaining. The next negotiation session is scheduled for Wednesday...
Refused to consider a resolution congratulating Yale on its victory over Harvard in The Game. Introduced by Vellucci. charter-righted by Kevin Crane '71, the order gave special praise to A. Bartlett Giamatti, president of Yale, and defensive start Fred Leone, both of Italian descent...