Word: chartering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...parade for ineptitude and inefficiency." The CFTC had the bad luck to be the first group subjected to a "sunset" law that requires new federal agencies to justify periodically their continued existence. There is some talk in Congress of letting the commission die when its charter expires Sept. 30 and giving some of its policing functions to the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Department of Agriculture...
...increasing size made it desirable to create a dance company, separate from the regular program of dance classes. Last year Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, granted a charter to the Harvard-Radcliffe Dance Company. The charter, similar to those given to the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra or the Harvard Band, provided for student management of the company in the form of a student board of directors. This is the first year that the board has held regular meetings...
Warsaw to release jailed protesters. Meantime, a loose group of dissident Czechoslovak intellectuals, Charter '77, has demanded?to no avail?that the regime in Prague begin to respect the human rights guaranteed by its laws...
...charter of Tanzanian socialism is the Arusha Declaration of 1967. Under its provisions, all major industries, banks, insurance companies, wholesale firms and import-export concerns were nationalized. The most radical measure was the resettlement of millions of peasants into ujamaa ("familyhood," in Swahili) villages, which in principle are supposed to resemble Luhanga. Initially, migration to these communities was voluntary, but only 2 million responded. Then, in 1973, Nyerere's party ordered everyone in the countryside to the villages. Army units loaded peasants into trucks. Those who balked saw their huts bulldozed or ignited. Scores, perhaps hundreds, died. Some...
...really industrious, you might even breathe some life into the Harvard Video Club. Although the university established a charter for this club, it has never been active...