Word: charter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...letter released last week, the deans wrote that the current board, who were all appointed by former President Ronald W. Reagan, "are undermining the proper functions of the Corporation. "Under the corporation's charter, Reagan's board will serve until Bush appoints...
...work of very old men who cling to power and are prepared to sacrifice . . . millions of lives. I think they have gone mad." Lee then promptly resigned as a member of the Basic Law Drafting Committee, the body established by China to draw up Hong Kong's post-1997 charter...
...seemed to threaten, the State Department urged all Americans in China to get out, and made that an order for families and dependents of its diplomats. By week's end some 7,300 of the roughly 8,800 U.S. citizens in China had been evacuated, many by hastily arranged charter flights...
...republics," declared Romas Gudaitis, a writer and deputy from Lithuania. Gorbachev was clearly exasperated by the Lithuanians' sudden departure, calling after them, "I ask you to be calm because this is not so simple." In the end, Gorbachev won passage of a compromise measure, placing the commission's charter in the hands of a group that includes leading dissidents...
...council eventually overturned its decision after a contentious week that electrified the campus. It made its decision on the basis of its charter and University policy, which prohibit campus groups from discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation. But underlying the council's discussion was in part the principle of education free from military influence, and in part the insistence on equality based on a historical legacy left over from a Civil Rights era a quarter century past...