Word: charter
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According to newly elected Board President Charlotte P. Armstrong '49, the overseers are charged with making sure the University "stays true to its charter...
...bringing about historic changes--the rise of Russia and China, for example, and the end of Western colonialism. He tried to persuade the British to give India its independence and tried to stop the French from repossessing Indochina. In the Four Freedoms and, with Churchill, in the Atlantic Charter, he proclaimed war aims in words that continue to express the world's aspirations today...
...most voucher and charter schools, the instruction is only decent, in relation to even the poorest public schools," Elmore said. "There is no other industrialized country in the world where they've improved public schools by using vouchers...
...advised adopting a proportional representation system. "They've been around as long as the city charter has been around, and in a certain sense, [they] represent it," Winters says...
...team by phone around 10:30 that night. Ginsburg asked them to write down the terms of an immunity deal and fax it to him. We have no computer, they replied. Write it on hotel stationery, he suggested. They refused. Ginsburg offered to fly to Washington that night by charter if they would just put something in writing. No deal...