Word: charter
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With disarming naturalness, Ulvang seems to embody the Olympic Charter's principle of creating "a way of life based on the joy found in effort." He's a winner cut from fresh, unbleached cloth. Perhaps a champion whose training segues so perfectly into his recreation can only emerge in a sport that doesn't need jumps or rinks, just snow and distance...
Speaking on condition of anonymity, the former HSA board member said the continued expansion of the publishing division's sales and advertising base was in danger of violatingthe student group's not-for-profit charter...
...charter, written when the agency wasfounded in 1957, states that HSA should serve theHarvard community...
Much of the problem is an elaborate and entrenched system of patronage based on accommodating the national pride of member states. The U.N. Charter calls only for "geographical balance" in filling various positions, but members have come to expect, and protect, their slots. The U.S. is as much an offender as any. The White House personnel office seizes on U.N. assignments at every level for political payoffs...
Because of the ever increasing importance of economic issues, pressure is building to give Germany and Japan permanent places on the Security Council, but without the power of the veto that the "perm five" possess. Opponents of that idea fear that revising the Charter would lift the lid of Pandora's box: the Third World would demand its own place on the Security Council in the form of seats for three regional powers -- India, Brazil and Nigeria. Otherwise, power in the council would be weighted against the poorer nations of the world...