Word: code
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...average citizen, the most familiar part of the shrunken firm will be AT&T Communications. Essentially Bell's former Long Lines Division, it will provide long-distance service as well as the familiar WATS (Wide Area Telephone Service) lines and 800 Area Code calling. These will account for more than half the new company's revenues, perhaps $35 billion...
That is why Dorothy's response is so unconsciously acute. She instinctively understands that what is developing around her is a tragedy of manners; Snider has read the bottom line shrewdly, but he has a blind eye and a tin ear for the social pieties, even the dress code, by which naked need and manipulative greed must be clothed for the sake of the respectability he desperately desires...
Poulson was not charged, and investigators only know the third member by his computer code name...
...expected that IBM will finally and formally present its new home computer this week. About 100,000 of the machines are to be shipped to stores across the U.S. before Christmas. Originally code-named Peanut and now styled the PCjr, the computer should be exultantly greeted by computer-store owners, who have been turning away would-be customers for months. "We've never seen such a tremendous demand for a product that does not even exist," says one Manhattan store manager...
...tight-lipped code of honor was another manifestation of the literary silence, posing as bravery, that lasted until his death of lung cancer in 1961. The act convinced no one, least of all his biographer. Johnson regards her subject without illusion. She knows that inspiration can arrive and vanish without cause and that Hammett's chief tragedy was in holding himself accountable for something beyond his gifts or character. Even so, as she sees it, he showed a streak of heroism, not in his work so much as in "the long blank years that prove the spirit." That kind...