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...country. The original City College of New York-then known as the Free Academy-was founded in 1847 to let "the children of the rich and the poor take their seats together and know of no distinction save that of industry, good conduct and intellect." "City" fulfilled its charter by schooling waves of immigrant youths, especially Jews, who were barred by many private colleges of the time. From the 1920s on, the "proletarian Harvard" produced more students who went on to doctorates than any other U.S. college, to say nothing of alumni as diverse as Zero Mostel, Bernard Malamud...
...conservative regime in Saudi Arabia, which is losing $100,000 each day that the pipeline remains closed. Now tankers must carry the bulk of oil produced in the Arabian Gulf around the Cape of Good Hope to Europe. The consequent shortage of ships has caused a tripling of charter rates, making it much more expensive to transport heating oil to the U.S. In parts of Europe, fuel-oil prices have more than doubled in the past year...
...hopes to use his navigational and crewing abilities to get a job on a charter boat in the Mediterranean or Caribbean for a couple years after graduation and before a B-School career...
Change GM's charter to restrict the corporation to operations which are not "detrimental to the health, safety, or welfare of the citizens of the United States...
When Judge Maris opens hearings next month, he will be exposed to American history as well as law. The states argue that their claims to the land precede the Union itself. King James I, according to the states, not only granted a land charter to the Virginia Company in 1606 but gave it rights up to 100 miles to sea from what is now Eastport, Me., to Cape Fear, N.C. Attorneys contend that King William was equally generous with the Massachusetts Bay Colony, granting sea as well as land rights to the colonists. The Government's answer is that...