Word: charter
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...House Speaker Newt Gingrich and others in Congress who want to slash U.S. funding and support of peacekeeping operations. "Over the years it has grown too bloated," Clinton said, addressing delegates from 185 nations in the War Memorial Opera House where President Truman addressed the original framers of the charter 50 years ago. "We must consider major structural changes. The United Nations simply does not need a separate agency with its own acronym, stationery and bureaucracy for every problem." That said, Clinton defended the organization against congressional critics. "Turning our backs on the U.N. is no solution. It would...
...remaining 31 pages contain a series of self-deifying articles by luminaries of Peninsula's past (i.e. graduated charter members and current staffers), chronicling the bravado and machismo of the Peninsula staffers. The pages brim with anecdotes relating the intellectual courage shown by Peninsula writers in slaying liberalism's sacred cows...
...need to make the changes necessary to stay competitive and productive. And most importantly, the subsidies raid the public purse to benefit narrow interests. At a time when we are told that the government does not have the money to fully provide for Head Start, the Americorps, Charter Schools, and real welfare reform, a budget that authorizes a $600 million tax credit for cattle-raising is an insult to all Americans...
Mandela and his colleagues have also had practical success managing the economy. For most of its history, the A.N.C. stood by its bible, the Freedom Charter, which called for the nationalization of Big Business and the redistribution of wealth. Now the socialists in Mandela's Cabinet talk of shrinking government and privatization. For the time being, the government is subscribing to the free-market philosophy that the best way to redistribute wealth is to create it; and the best way to create it is to save money, not spend...
Many of the world's governments have enshrined press freedom in their constitutions but feel free to ignore it. A charter drawn up by the World Press Freedom Committee condemns censorship in all its forms, including economic restrictions, and proclaims freedom of expression as an essential human right. But government resistance to the charter's principles is tenacious. There is the argument from patriotism: nations, especially when in crisis, cannot tolerate destructive criticism. There is the argument from culture: chaotic Western concepts of freedom cannot be applied to societies based on order and stability. There is the argument from economics...