The Russian-designed Mi-8 helicopter was chartered by Khorasan Cargo Airlines, Mr. Gumrukcu said.

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The College of William and Mary was chartered by England's monarchs here in 1693, and the colony seated its capital in Williamsburg from 1699 to 1780.

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's stock to First American Media, which was owned by the Iowas and chartered under tribal law.

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The case was originally filed by Standard Investment Chartered, Inc. and Benchmark Financial Services, Inc. (whose owner, Edward Siedle, is a Forbes.com columnist).

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One of those start-ups, Saigon National Bank, was the first national bank chartered and owned by Vietnamese-Americans.

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Hillcrest Children and Family Center (HCFC) was founded in 1815 by Dolly Madison and chartered by an act of Congress.

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The 15, 000-member KWVA, chartered by Congress in 2008, was formed as a charitable entity to "organize, promote and maintain for benevolent and charitable purposes an association of persons who have seen honorable service during the Korean War" defined as from June 25, 1950, to January 1955.

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Some anxiety about this was expressed this morning by Mervyn King, now of Standard Chartered Bank, but formerly head of the Bank of England.

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This was the suggestion of the intellectual leadership of a commission that had been chartered by Congress to look into the gold question.

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