Word: charterers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Councilor David A. Wylie, who voted against the order, said last night that it "doesn't seem consonant" with the charter of the city government that vests all control over city appointees with the city manager...
...initial move is to be ordained and get a church charter-a relatively easy gambit. Hensley's Universal Life Church in Modesto, Calif., will do the honors by mail for a $2 ordination charge and a monthly $2 chartering fee. Then, to qualify for the tax break, aspiring holy men-or women-must take a vow of poverty, conduct almost any kind of religious services, turn over their income to their church, and meet the IRS's paperwork requirements. In return, the church can grant them a modest, tax-free living allowance (IRS might pass...
...million on the property, Wasserman had more in mind than the soon-to-be-evicted tenants on many of his property holdings. He wanted high-rise condominiums erected on his land and to get permission to build them he needed not just down-zoning, but a whole new zoning charter. Wasserman applied for and was granted the unprecedented changes by the Zoning Board of Appeals. The Boston Phoenix reported in 1971 that Crane pushed Wasserman's projects so vigorously that he "forced out a member of the planning board that opposed a Wasserman zoning request." The Phoenix went...
...back $1,400. Now they have paid for a return visit to the same resort in March. When Harry Lack, a district court judge in Everett, Mass., and his wife decided to take a golfing trip to Paradise Island, Bahamas, they could have saved $280 by booking into a charter flight and considerably more cash by staying at one of the island's pleasant smaller hotels. Instead, they flew first class and booked into the pricey Britannia Beach Hotel. "I feel inflation like everyone else," says Mrs. Lack. "With the economy tight, I'm not getting...
...provide the agents with cover for operating abroad. That again might be defensible, but Colby went on to say that "some of these individuals submitted reports on the activities of the American dissidents with whom they were in contact." Again, those actions would seem to violate the CIA charter...