Word: code
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recalled, Walker bought a 27-ft. sloop, no small feat on the salary of a young naval officer. Walker seems to have been enchanted by skulduggery: although a professional spy would not normally lug around incriminating evidence, Walker was caught carrying the map of drop sites, plus code pads, secret writing equipment and ciphers...
...Navy contracts worth $22.5 million away from the company, and will reopen them to competitive bidding. Finally, the Navy announced that it would hold up several General Dynamics contracts, including one for construction of the next Trident submarine, until it is satisfied that the company has established a code of ethics for its employees and taken action toward settling $75 million in overhead payments disputed by the Navy...
...idea of simplifying the tax code and making it fairer is heartily supported by most of the public; with Reagan set to launch a full-scale crusade, it still has a chance of passage. But as more and more special benefits and complexities are added even before the plan reaches Congress, the original goal seems to be slipping away. As Senator Bill Bradley, sponsor of the Democrats' tax-reform bill, sighed last week, "At some point, if this continues, you have to ask yourself whether the entire exercise is worth...
Norris is not magnetic; he does not even have the freak appeal of Mr. T. His / popularity, all in all, is curious. The hard-core audience does appreciate his athletic bona fides. Also, says Code of Silence Producer Raymond Wagner, "he's an enormously nice human being, and that can be sensed on the screen." Norris indeed seems like a nice guy: married for 26 years, doting father of two loving sons, loyal to his friends. "The character I want to build," he said last week during the filming of Invasion U.S.A., "is a man who believes in the right...
...reform and the minimum tax promises to provoke the most heated lobbying that Capitol Hill has seen in years, much of it aimed at protecting the myriad tax deductions enacted over the decades. But with the polls clearly showing that the people want a fairer and simpler tax code, the leaders of both parties seem eager to follow. Now that the President appears ready to join the battle, tax reform may never have a better chance of getting past the proposal stage...