Word: code
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After the talks ended, Bieber claimed to have negotiated "an unprecedented job-security program with far-reaching new protection for our members against job loss." He said it would safeguard them against job loss due to plant closings, new technology and "outsourcing"-the industry's code name for producing cars and parts abroad. He also said he had won commitments from GM to "maintain production and create new job opportunities" in the U.S. The program offered by GM reportedly consists of a $1 billion "job security pool" from which workers with as little as one year's seniority...
...result of this great rebellion the Overseers and Corporation agreed on a code of 153 regulations in 13 section, dictating everything from vacations to the requirement that the president submit an annual report to the Overseers...
...sick of it. I tried Edith one time and all I got was 'Oh ho, Edith, have your cake and Edith too, eh?' Mona is best. It sounds sort of untouchable." The false Bernadette says she had dinner with "someone influential, very prominent in town." This is code for someone with reputed underworld ties. "It was boring. I'm not going out again until I find someone as smart as my ten-year...
There were more tricks, very often the same one over again. After he had performed a trick three times, Ali showed how it worked. He is not supposed to do this-very much against the magicians' code. He has been dropped from the Magic Castle, the official magicians' club. Ali pulled off a fake thumb. He explained: "It is a sin in my religion to deceive people." He has almost as much fun explaining the tricks as he has doing them...
...boost Government revenues by $50 billion over the next three years through such steps as raising liquor taxes and reducing business deductions for luxury cars. But buried in the fine print of the 751-page 1984 Deficit Reduction Act is a fundamental change in the way the tax code treats foreigners who invest in the U.S. The measure could attract more money from overseas, which would help finance the U.S. budget deficit, hold down interest rates and perhaps spark a boom in the stock and bond markets. Indeed, the rally seemed to have already started last week...