Word: code
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...UNESCO general conference in Belgrade, a majority of Communist and Third World nations called for a "new world information order" to compensate for the alleged pro-Western bias of global news organizations. The goals were the licensing of journalists, an international code of press ethics and increased government control over media content. Although UNESCO backed off under pressure from the West, it still allocated $16 million for a two-year program to study "media reforms...
...calls it "the most dramatic new ingredient to collective bargaining that we have seen in more than a decade." Labor officials denounce the tactic as union busting. Says Bruce Simon, general counsel for the Air Line Pilots Association: "It was not the intent of the framers of the bankruptcy code to enable renegades like Continental Air Lines to wage eco nomic warfare by destroying our system of collective bargaining." The Supreme Court is now considering the issue in a case involving a small New Jersey building supply company...
...evening of the abduction, the criminals left a message on the doorstep of a police station in The Hague giving the Heineken family three days to rustle up a total of about $10 million worth of U.S., French, West German and Dutch currencies. The kidnapers used the code word "eagle" for themselves and "hare" for the policeman who would bring them the booty. Three days later the Amsterdam police placed an ad in a national newspaper declaring their readiness to pay the ransom ("The pasture is green for the hare") and demanding further contact. In reply the kidnapers phoned...
...diminution of the U.S. role, suspicion is also growing that the Administration may in fact be pondering direct military intervention in Nicaragua. Washington corridors are filled with talk of a plan for a U.S.-backed invasion of Nicaragua some time in 1984. One supposed invasion scheme, reportedly code-named "Pegasus," is said to call for U.S. air and sea support for an attack by the Hondurans, the contras and possibly other Central American nations...
Early in the final 20 the Terriers had two threats serious enough to force Smith and then Code to play goalie momentarily. But after Blair used his pads and stick to smother a blast by Pierog from between the circles with seven minutes left. B.U looked unexpectedly flat, almost resigned as the clock ran down. Its only success was in avoiding an open-net goal (just barely), when Kukulowicz hit the post with three seconds remaining...