Word: charterers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...local politicians idolized Moses. It was not until 1945, after he left office, that Mayor La Guardia remarked on how much dangerous power Moses had acquired. He pointed out the vehicle too: appointive office in quasi-public institutions that were financed by bond issues and administered under special charters, beyond the reach of elected officials or the public. Moses' Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority was the mightiest. After all, "the best bill drafter in Albany" had rewritten the charter-and on his own behalf. Like most such authorities, Triborough was closed to public scrutiny. Unlike them...
...Joint Policy Committee has been a very informal body, still lacking any official charter from the Harvard and Radcliffe governing boards. The committee grew out of an organization called the Joint Budget Committee, a group of governing boards members set up in 1971 to review Radcliffe's finances every year. The budget committee evolved into the Joint Policy Committee almost two years ago, and when the issue of merger began to loom on the horizon last year the Joint Policy Committee's members decided that they were the people who should be conducting the 1974-75 merger re-evaluation...
Despite Bok's reassurances, Guinier remains skeptical. "If you want a close relationship," he asks, "why don't you say so in the institute's charter...
...real administrative power lies with James Leo Sullivan (no relation to the mayor), the city manager. The council appoints the manager who, according to the city charter, has complete control over the heirarchy of commissioners and departments within the city's government. The council, the charter says, cannot order the manager to take any specific action; it can only "request" that he comply with its resolutions. In reality, of course, when the City Council says "jump," the city manager responds, "How high...
TIME'S Chief European Correspondent William Rademaekers observes: "The new leaders in Europe want more joint cooperation and less public clashing over cosmic proposals such as Kissinger's Atlantic Charter speech of 1973. To them this means more consultation on a range of problems from inflation to the environment. It does not necessarily mean summitry or an American President living out of a suitcase. It does mean hard talking at the Cabinet level, and a President who can deliver on his promises-get bills through Congress and lobby with the American people for what he believes. Europeans joke...