Word: charterer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Though they have no constituency, the refugees have sympathizers in many countries. In Paris, Mayor Jacques Chirac proposed that the city charter a ship and a plane to bring 1,500 refugees into France immediately. The motion was finally passed, with abstentions by the Communists, for whom stories of the Vietnamese boat people have become an embarrassment. The people of Iowa have pledged to accept 1,500 refugees for resettlement this year, and are disappointed that transportation for the Vietnamese has not yet been arranged. Says Iowa Refugee Official Richard Whitaker: "We are ready for them and upset that...
...wave of World War II-trained men are approaching retirement. "Look around the airports," says Olson. "Most of the people working on planes are gray-haired." He is right: the average age of airplane mechanics is 57. Most E-RAU graduates get their first jobs in aviation working for charter operators and servicing business planes, rather than going direct to airlines...
...booked into 67 cities, with 48 more on the waiting list. "Buildings Reborn" was organized by New Yorker Barbaralee Diamonstein, author of a handsome book by the same name (Harper & Row; $10) and herself a pioneer in the movement. Says Diamonstein, a former White House aide and a charter member of the New York Landmarks Conservancy: "Adaptive re-use [of old buildings] is moving from erratic initiative, a loft here, a firehouse there, to become a superb planning tool. It's no longer just a question of restoring a mansard roof or a neoclassic colonnade but of looking...
...fact, the NBER strives to remain research-oriented and discount a project's lack of immediate application. The federal government funds many of the bureau's projects through the National Science Foundation and through individual agencies for which NBER does work. But NBER's charter states, "the bureau makes no recommendations on legislation or policy, only determines economic factors with impartiality...
Radcliffe's charter of 1894 mandates that the corporation work to provide a Harvard education for undergraduate women. Although this objective was certainly top priority in the late 1800's, the charter also included a second objective: to promote higher education for women in general. As Radcliffe came close to achieving the first mandate, the second stirred from its over 50-year sleep. Subsequently, the Radcliffe Board has focused in the past 20 years on many programs designed primarily for women who have already received bachelors degrees...