Word: charter
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Woman walks into a bar. The regulars instantly size her up: "Uptown, East Side, college educated. Probably reuses her grocery bags. Charter subscriber to Working Woman magazine. Saw The Big Chill three times. Plays Trivial Pursuit on the weekends with friends. What's she doing here on a Monday? It's Murphy Brown night...
...expected the Resolution Trust Corporation, the oddball agency cobbled together in 1989 to undertake the largest federal bailout ever, to liquidate more than 800 savings and loans without a hitch. And the dubious were right. From the beginning, the RTC, whose charter is to find and prosecute the crooked, the greedy and the inept among the nation's thrift managers, has been dogged by questions of efficiency, propriety and conflict of interest. Last week three RTC attorneys had more bad news; they testified on Capitol Hill that they had been blocked from prosecuting former S&L officials...
Goler said the executive board of HSA was setting up a task force to lead the search for a new general manager. The general manager plays an important role in HSA's "missions," as outlined in their charter, Goler said. The general manager has the "rigorous task of overseeing the financial performance of the corporation," Goler said. "We'll look for someone who can balance those," he said...
...that Third World members held dear. Idi Amin's Uganda, Pol Pot's Cambodia and other killing fields piled up bones unchecked in large part because the carnage was performed within sovereign borders. Many developing countries were disturbed by these atrocities, but they remained loath to compromise the U.N. Charter's criterion for use of outside force; the days of "intervention" by Western colonial empires were too recent. Beyond that, some U.N. members did not bear much scrutiny when it came to internal violence. While condemning bloodshed in Soweto, for example, Syria freely bombarded insurgents in the city of Hama...
...from the city's prodigious capacity to re-invent itself time and time again), the citizens of the city fought for their rights during many nerve-fraught periods. Their successes are notable: the Usatges, for instance, dates from a century before the Magna Carta and is essentially a medieval charter of citizen's rights. In addition, the Consell de Cent (Council of One Hundred), in its day, was the oldest proto-democratic political body in Spain...