Word: charter
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...Essays, which has never been published as a book but, in photocopied form, is radically changing the curriculums of school systems all over the country. Written by an undistinguished group of scholars, these essays on history, social studies, math, language and arts and science are meant to be a charter of Afrocentrist history for young black Americans. They have had little scrutiny in the mainstream press. But they are popular with bureaucrats like Thomas Sobol, the education commissioner in New York State -- people who are scared of alienating black voters or can't stand up to thugs like City College...
...husband's inelegant entry into national politics in 1988, the Second Lady made an inelegant entry of her own: in interviews with the Post, she brandished daggers at the press and at her husband's campaign handlers, denouncing such ignominies as their alleged refusal to serve food on charter flights, which caused her to lose "14 pounds in one week." She became "so thin," she said, that "my skirt would move around and my kick pleat would end up in the front, because there was nothing to hold it . . . It was just awful...
...crucial decisions are still made in seat-of-the-pants fashion, chiefly by three top executives. The veteran of the trio is Ed Turner, a charter member of the CNN staff, who is probably best known (as news stories quoting him invariably point out) for not being related to owner Ted. As executive vice president in charge of newsgathering, Turner is responsible for CNN's worldwide network of 95 correspondents. He is the soul of CNN: serious, pragmatic, not flashy but fiercely competitive. "No, we don't throw money around like the networks," says Turner about CNN's relatively tightfisted...
Which does not by any means ensure that the commonwealth will prevail, or even get itself truly organized. Its founding charter is not much more than a vaguely worded statement of intent. Its members must now actually define the policies they will pursue and form mechanisms to ensure that they really are coordinated. The alliance -- it is not really a state -- was not even a week old before its first potentially serious fissure appeared. While Yeltsin assured Soviet military leaders that the armed forces would remain under unified command, Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk proclaimed that all army units...
...Maastricht decisions will be incorporated into the 1957 Treaty of Rome, the E.C.'s charter document. With its political dimension expanded, the Community -- the industrialized world's largest single market with 340 million people -- should provide much needed stability in the face of turmoil in Eastern Europe and disintegration in the former Soviet Union...