Word: code
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rent strike, which Lindsey by now headed, began working. When the strikers cited 200 building-code violations in one block, the city authorities did nothing, so the strikers got the state to bring the landlord to heel. To get more trash collections, the strikers trucked garbage downtown and left it to rot in the sun. Says Lindsey: "People were taking things into their own hands, and that generated a lot of excitement...
...with his ambition, flaws and lust intact. ) He plays up to the powerful, pans a performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream, watches a cockfight, tells the story of how his wife burned her hand. Always on the prowl for a likely wench, he writes, in his easily decipherable code, about Deb, a servant: on March 31, 1668, "Yo did take her, the first time in my life, sobra me genu and did poner mi mano sub her jupes and toca su thigh." Yet Pepys' journals are far more than an account of appetites satisfied or denied; along...
...Sanctity of the Seated is only one of the unwritten rules of Washington's code of Power Party etiquette. In a city where no one makes even the pretense of avoiding office talk during social occasions, and where the office being talked about may be an Oval one, partying counts for a good deal more than celebrating the season. For many Cabinet officers, congressional leaders and other key political players, the social whirl is "really an elongation of the working day," observes Superlobbyist Robert Gray, who makes it his (very profitable) business to know what lubricates the workings...
...developed ZapMail. To send ZapMail, a customer summons a Federal courier to pick up documents, which are then sent by facsimile transmission to another Federal Express office. There a laser printer spews out copies that are hand delivered. Elapsed time: two hours. Under development for five years with the code name Gemini Project, the $100 million electronic-mail venture got off to a slow start in July. Federal cut the price of sending 20 pages of information in half, from $50 to $25, and revamped its advertising. The company remains convinced that once customers try ZapMail, they will wonder...
...what seem to be isolated letters and digits. At first glance the pages hold pure nonsense: two small boys watch a television set; below them is the legend "R T-M S B-N B-10." But when the letters and number are pronounced, young readers can crack the code: "Our team is bein' beaten." A Martian has descended from a spaceship. The line explains, "N-M-E L-E-N." A doctor holds aloft a test tube and announces, "I F D Q-R!" The whimsical drawings and ingenious punch lines are M-U-S-N from...