Word: charter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...City charter adopted...
...provincial governments. The provinces want to increase their control over economic resources, while retaining control over the all-important matter of language instruction. Trudeau was willing to concede some economic autonomy to them, particularly in the area of mineral rights, in return for their support for a new constitutional "Charter of Rights" that would vest additional powers in the federal government...
...very least a personal triumph for Pinochet, who had tailored the new constitution to his own specifications. The charter outlaws doctrines "founded in class struggle" (a code phrase for Marxism) and commits Chile to a free-market economy. And though it specifies a return to democracy, the pace it mandates is leisurely enough to keep Pinochet in office until 1989-and possibly eight more years after that-when open presidential elections must finally be held...
Vice President Mondale held its charter meeting in the White House on Tuesday. President Bok and 21 other university leaders, including Paul Gray of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, showed up to suggest how the administration should allocate the funds...
First copies of the Dial, a slick new monthly about television, were winning rave reviews from charter subscribers this month. Billed as a program guide to public television, the Dial also features articles by first-class writers: Wilfrid Sheed on sports, Auberon Waugh on Alec Guinness, Stanley Kauffmann on acting. But the magazine was unexpectedly panned by the House of Representatives, then by the U.S. Postal Service. Reason: the Dial- which will be sent to 650,000 PBS-TV supporters in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., as part of their $25-minimum contribution-is bursting with...