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Because of the terms of the company’s charter, which requires a two-thirds vote for amendment, the 30 percent voting rights allow the family to block takeover attempts like this...
...would be the real beneficiaries of the President's tax-cutting initiative? They are people who include the charter members of the Bush "Pioneers," the corporate executives, lawyers, oilmen and others who each raised more than $100,000 for the President's election campaign. People like Maurice (Hank) Greenberg, chairman of American International Group (AIG), the global insurance carrier that has been the beneficiary of many special-interest laws over the years...
...much attention from researchers. One reason is the difficulty of quantifying happiness: it is a condition that is diagnosed and defined not by the doctor but by the patient. Another is the medical community's tendency to study pathology, not normality. "In spite of its name and its charter," Seligman avers, "the National Institute of Mental Health has always been the National Institute of Mental Illness." He notes that when the NIMH was created in 1947, "academics found that they could get grants if their research was about curing mental illness...
Last month, an administrator from UNC-Chapel Hill wrote to the university’s branch of the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship that the organization’s charter violates the university’s nondiscrimination policy...
...Undergraduate Council’s charter is broader than the College’s rules, prohibiting student organizations that discriminate in any way from receiving funding. The council is right to withhold money from HRCF. That funding comes to the council directly from nearly all the students here; the obligation to spend it in ways that benefit all students—and not provide offices open only to a select few—is obvious...