Word: code
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rule Harvard have not. Declare "Weinberger stinketh..." or "Duarte reeketh..." with the pungent odor of burning flesh, and you may be tossed out of school. In the wake of the Weinberger protest the Faculty Council, Bok & Co, hope to enact a new gag rule and disciplinary code for political protestors...
...Hewlett-Packard may finally be finding its touch with personal computers. Next month it will introduce a battery-operated portable computer, code-named Nomad, that will weigh 8.5 Ibs. and sell for $3,000. Industry insiders are excited about the machine, which has a tilt-up flat screen and built-in software including the industry's current hit, Lotus 1-2-3, a business planning program that also produces graphs. The computer has twice the memory of Apple's hot-selling Macintosh, and is designed to connect to the IBM Personal Computer as well as to Hewlett-Packard...
Survival can bring a kind of smugness, a moral certainty that there is an absolute code to obey and a single straight path to follow. Hynde's songs never carry a hint of this. She may have forced a land of necessary rapprochement with her recklessness, but the fire still burns bright-perhaps against the night. She speaks intensely of Natalie, and of "a real feeling of humanity that I hadn't had before." But she also thinks often of a past that dwells persistently, inescapably in the present. "I think about death every day. Always...
Consider the problem of the sixty-nine digit number. The Defense Department long ago created a coding system founded on eighty digit numbers. By breaking these numbers into their respective factors, the code will be broken. A new generation of superfast computers could break down such a code in a matter of hours...
...Jackson's rhetoric as face value, they're now forewarned: he's more politician than clergyman. But we've all known for years that every American president in recent memory relished the use of this kind of language in private; perhaps it's part of some macho politician's code, or a sign of the kind of reductive attitudes towards masses of people that our political system rewards. Jackson, in any case, has merely shown that he lacks the polished press relations he'd need to keep such incidents off the front pages He'll learn. Scott A. Rosenberg...