Word: code
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...schools. He could have damaged Columbia's main computer by exploiting a "bug," or error, in the operating system, but instead he quickly notified authorities of the problem. Two months ago a more diabolical hacker broke into C.M.U.'s DEC-20 system and misused an authorization code to destroy student, faculty and researcher files. It took university programmers 23 hours to restore the lost files from storage discs...
...general the proposed plan would rejigger several existing programs. One recommendation would change the tax code to deny employers deductions unless they continued to offer health-insurance coverage to laid-off workers for at least a year, or until they found other jobs. The former employee would pay the premiums, but at group costs, which are usually lower than individual rates. The Administration also said it would back legislation requiring employers to permit the jobless to enroll in the health-care plans of their working spouses. At least 40% of the nation's 11.4 million unemployed have working partners...
Meanwhile, in another case of corruption at Maryland, university president John Toil has recommended that the Board of Regents fire jailed mechanical engineering professor Shao Ti Hsu became Hsu's perjury conviction constitutes a violation of the faculty conduct code...
...that Californians do by bumper sticker, posting its noble but often mind-numbing reminders at almost every road turning and intersection: THE LAND IS OUR WEALTH, EDUCATION IS OUR LIBERATION, WORK HARDER, GROW MORE FOOD, BUILD THE REVOLUTION. With equal alacrity, the Grenadians have adeptly copied the dress code of the revolution, and the streets of the port capital town of St. George's are filled with remarkably accurate understudies for Che Guevara. The government's "mass rallies" have got the stem-winding syntax of fighting socialism down to the last fist-raising rounds of "Long live! Long...
Constable was a painter of substance, not fantasy; but imagination rises through the substance. His earliest childhood memories, the elements of his genetic code as a painter, were all about the weight and noise and feel of things he grew up with as a well-off son of a watermill owner in Suffolk, on the River Stour. "The sound of water escaping from Mill dams . . . willows, Old rotten Banks, slimy posts, and brickwork. I love such things," he wrote to a friend. "They made me a painter (and I am grateful) . . . I had often thought of pictures of them before...