"We would like to see it fly six times a year," said Mr. James, a former Concorde charterer who in 1982 paid £55,000 to charter one of the aircraft to take a plane full of paying guests from London to the Egyptian pyramids and back again in the same day.
Charter, one of the nation's largest cable television operations, said on Thursday that it would file for bankruptcy by April 1 as part of an effort to handle $21 billion in debt.
It is understood that the prime minister may be able to live with a statutory underpinning of the royal charter – one of the key Lib Dem and Labour demands.
Charters are particularly important for privately held companies like CFA (i.e., its shares don't trade on a public exchange), because charters are one of the few documents available to public stakeholders about the company.
To that end, Charter One Bank of Ohio recently announced that it would make $100 million in low-interest loans available to develop and improve housing in the neighborhoods that surround University Circle, as well as small-business loans for local enterprises in University Circle.
In an effort to show that the success of a charter school does not hinge on its freedom from a union contract, the union itself now runs two charters, and one of the 18 new schools Mayor Bloomberg announced will also be unionized.
Statistics culled by the American Federation of Teachers from a national examination and then published on the front page of The New York Times revealed that charter schools, one of the most ballyhooed reforms, actually trail conventional public schools in bringing children of various ages, races, and incomes to proficiency in math and reading.
After the 2004 acquisition of US bank Charter One and 2005 purchase of a 10% Bank of China stake, the board felt under pressure from investors to show it could grow without big deals.
A Russian tanker chartered by one of the world's largest oil companies, Royal Dutch/Shell Group, was carrying Iraqi oil on April 5 in violation of the international embargo against Iraq when it was stopped by American sailors, American and company officials said today.
Donald Rumsfeld tried to deny knowledge of the office's charter (though one of its officials said otherwise), then shut it down.
