Word: charter
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...visit to Egypt, but by the time he returned to Jakarta early Friday, clouds of smoke hung over the city as the country he had patiently built up for three decades burned before his eyes. Early Saturday morning the U.S. embassy began an emergency evacuation of Americans on charter planes. Other embassies advised their citizens to leave Indonesia as soon as possible...
Since 1993, we have worked hard to improve education from preschool to postgraduate level. We expanded Head Start, created Goals 2000 to help states set high academic standards, expanded charter schools, focused Title 1 funds more on low-income children, while setting the same standards for those children as for all others, and made college affordable to everyone through grants, loans, scholarships and tax benefits...
According to Officer Ayala, this right is covered by Charter 111B, and alcoholics are therefore often referred to as "111s...
...balanced trade rules can assist nations in achieving the economic growth necessary to afford environmental progress. But that balance is being forsaken by the Clinton Administration and the World Trade Organization. In ruling against the U.S. law to protect sea turtles in shrimp fishing, the wto ignores its own charter provision that allows actions that protect natural resources. The "enemy" of wildlife and the environment is not free global trade; it is poorly crafted trade policies that sell short the protections in which all citizens of the world have a stake. MARK VAN PUTTEN, President National Wildlife Federation Vienna...
...club constitution is a joint construction drafted collectively by both groups. At a joint meeting earlier this year, members of the original two clubs voted to approve the new charter...