Word: charterers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...EXPRESSION "political reform" has positive connotations: it implies increasing the responsiveness and integrity of the political system. In the light of this meaning, Mayor Kevin White's proposed changes for Boston's charter--originally derived from the recommendations of his Committee for Boston--should be called manipulations or at least alterations. Slightly amended but approved by the city council, the main proposals...
...officials searching for missing refrigerators find 35 of their lost iceboxes at Kennedy Airport. An airport spokesman reports that the iceboxes "have just been sitting there" for a year, since being stranded at Kennedy during a stopover by an HSA charter flight...
Then, a few hours before its arrival, the police got word that a U.S. customs pursuit plane with sophisticated surveillance gear had intercepted the charter as it winged its way over Key West. The airborne feds tracked the intruder up the coast, warning local police in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Maryland and finally Pennsylvania that the plane might touch down at any time...
...Death of a Fraternity Pledge" presented a biased and unrealistic view of the college fraternity system. While isolated cases of physical hazing and abuses are reported, most national fraternities specifically forbid hazing, and noncompliance with this rule can cause a chapter to lose its charter and be suspended indefinitely...
...mocrates pour la République), was changed to the Assembly for the Republic (Rassemblement pour la République).* Seventy thousand Guallist supporters-the biggest political convention ever-were brought to Paris' Porte de Versailles exhibition hall by ten special trains, 300 buses and charter flights from all over the country. It was an excited, happy crowd of all ages, of men and women, many wearing tri-color emblems or buttons that read: CHIRAC, I BELIEVE IN HIM (Chirac, J'Y Crois). Drawn by the old French hunger for strong chieftains, they had come more...