Word: chartering
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...Revolutionary times, the moral absolutes had become a lot less absolute. To the original but fading charter between God and man was added a second covenant, one between man and man: "We, the people ..." This second covenant was drafted by a second, extraordinarily articulate set of "founding fathers." These were men who were influenced by the European Enlightenment and who embraced a kind of post-Christian system that still sometimes did acknowledge the Christian God and respected the man Jesus. Thomas Jefferson found various religions "all good enough" because they helped preserve peace and order, but he could also...
...captain to coordinate activities for a five-block area and stimulate volunteer work. With a limited power of the purse, communities could choose among services provided by the city government or by private contractors. Next month New Yorkers will be given an opportunity to vote for city charter changes that will strengthen local governing boards...
...Supplemental airlines, now engaged mostly in charter business, could expand into flying scheduled routes, and companies that wanted to start new airlines would be encouraged to do so, on routes of their own choice, if they were "fit, willing and able...
...charter of the HSA states that the agency was founded to employ students "who are in need of financial assistance, to defray the expenses of their education...
...Princeton graduate who finished Columbia Law School in 1948, Pike was first elected to Congress from his conservative Long Island district in 1960 ("I've always been surrounded on three sides by water and on the fourth side by Republicans"). Pike harbors a secret yen to be a "charter captain half the time and a political writer the other half," but he settles for cruises off Long Island in the 30-year-old Navy launch he bought for $8,250. Pike and his wife Doris still live in the two-story Victorian frame house where he was born...