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In the meantime, synagogues like the South Philadelphia Shtiebel are chartering a new course.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 14, 2021

Retailers including Walmart Inc, Target Corp and Home Depot have said they are chartering ships to deal with the pandemic-driven slowdown of sea networks that handle 90% of the world’s trade.

From Reuters • Oct. 25, 2021

Two of the nation’s largest retailers, Walmart and Home Depot, are chartering their own ships to retrieve their products, while Amazon is beefing up its fleet of cargo planes.

From Washington Post • Sep. 1, 2021

Others are chartering research projects that depart from established Darwinian thinking in fundamental ways—like ornithologist Richard Prum, who recently authored a book on the ways beauty, rather than any utilitarian measure of fitness, shapes evolution.

From Slate • Jan. 23, 2020

Meanwhile at Road Scholar, families are chartering entire 16-person boats in the Galápagos that the company uses for its natural- and cultural-history group tours.

From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2013