Word: charters
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...those early years, Ludwig was short of cash; at times, he teetered on the verge of insolvency. But by the mid-19308, he had pioneered a financing technique that is now standard in the shipping business. Before buying or building a ship, Ludwig would arrange for a client to charter it for up to 20 years. He would then borrow the entire cost of the ship, and repay the loan, plus interest, out of the charter fees. The result: a fleet purchased with other people's money...
...doves alike because he decides that the law could probably never determine satisfactorily which side committed aggression (too many technicalities both ways). On the often-raised question of constitutionality, Taylor offers no solace to doves. After reviewing the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, the Constitution and U.S. ratification of the U.N. Charter, he suggests that the war is most probably legal in U.S. termsmainly on the basis of clearly demonstrated congressional intent to help President Johnson pursue it. But after sifting a number of cases, including the events and trials relating to Song My, Taylor concludes, that the U.S. seems...
...order introduced by Councillor Barbara S. Ackermann to hold a public meeting next week with Cronin in his capacity as temporary rent control administrator was also put off when Councillor Danehy exercised his charter right to delay voting on the order for one week...
...quickie divorce mill. The Juárez court severed 43,000 American marriages a year. Allowed to stand in much of the U.S., the divorces required the fleeting appearance of only one spouse, while the other merely agreed in writing. Juárez was so renowned that it attracted charter flights made up entirely of divorce seekers who flew in wed and flew out unwed all in less than...
...American Psychiatric Association estimates that in California, more troubled individuals already seek help from the human potentials movement than from "traditional sources of psychotherapy." Yet the human potentials group sessions are largely valueless, and even dangerous, for the severely disturbed. Psychologist Carl Rogers, one of the movement's charter members, and many others consider it a learning experience for "normals" rather than a therapeutic experience for the sick-who are too engrossed in their own emotions fully to feel another...