charter
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Upon receiving a formal national-bank charter from the OCC, World Liberty will be able to issue and redeem USD1, manage the reserve backing USD1, and provide custody services to customers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
The helicopter was operated by Lady Lori Kenya as a charter flight, and the cause of the crash hasn’t been determined.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
More formally known as judicial dissolution, the corporate death penalty basically happens when the government is so pissed off by the corruption or damage a corporation causes that it yanks away their charter.
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2026
Multiple teacher/coaches at El Camino Real have been placed on administrative leave in the latest example of turmoil at the Woodland Hills charter school.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
I tell Michael about the time Lolo took us on a night fishing trip on a charter boat and we caught a twenty-pound tuna in the moonlight.
From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina
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Don’t forget that charters are public schools, open to everyone, with students accepted by lottery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
And anyone serious about increasing black and Hispanic enrollment might consider the record of high-performing charters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
The businesses tied to outdoor leisure that are expected to benefit include golf courses, outdoor entertainment venues and providers of fishing charters.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
They point, essentially, to test scores that are lower than the state average, lower than other charters and lower than nearby district-operated “comparison” schools.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026
Shelly said, “I’ve known Paine since back when he and Dusty used to fish charters out of Ted’s. He was always a gentleman—your daddy, 1 mean, not Dusty.”
From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen
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Instead, the chartered bank would be able to issue and manage cryptocurrencies and digital assets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
Each traveled about 280 miles from Meridian; Rustici driving four-plus hours, while Deoudes flew on a chartered plane with half a dozen employees.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
Coast Guard investigators are also determining whether the boat was illegally chartered.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
Several buses have been chartered to transport elderly people.
From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026
Early in 1968, a group of optometrists, with Billy among them, chartered an airplane to fly them from Ilium to an international convention of optometrists in Montreal.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
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The other big winners are shipowners, who are chartering out their vessels at high rates as fewer ships are available globally.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Vessels still are likely to encounter “port congestion,” as well as chartering and scheduling disruptions, said Sean Pribyl, a maritime attorney at Holland & Knight.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 18, 2026
The coalition he belongs to is chartering buses to bring protesters from across California for Monday's game and is hoping to have "40- to 50,000 people" around the stadium, he said.
From Barron's ● Jun. 14, 2026
For example, Epstein discusses chartering a plane from Scotland for the redacted user in the chat, and offers praise for their "Oxford speech".
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2025
"We didn't know Atom-Star was the one chartering the plane until you ordered the G-boat cargo loaded on it," confessed the Mars-Air agent.
From Atom Drive by Charles Louis Fontenay
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