Word: code
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...local police. Says Roy Prosterman, a U.S. law professor who was a consultant on El Salvador's agrarian reforms: "There is currently a popular expression in the assembly, 'Land reform is fine, but it has to be perfected.' Many of us fear that that is a code word for 'destroyed...
...President Nixon declared that "reform of our federal income tax system is long overdue." In his 1976 campaign, Jimmy Carter called the Internal Revenue Code, with its reams of special deductions and loopholes, "a disgrace to the human race." Despite this presidential rhetoric and numerous reform initiatives, however, the tax system remains as convoluted and capricious as ever. People with the same incomes often pay wildly different amounts...
...Florida land bubble burst, Boca Raton and its environs really are almost beyond realness. The international rich have rediscovered the Gold Coast's Palm Beach County. Though it includes the town of Palm Beach, this incubator for the newly wealthy is snob years distant from that small, code-ridden oasis of blue blood and encrusted money. The Gold Coast nouveaux, for the most part lustier, sportier and much younger than the ancien régime of Worth Avenue, converge from all over the world to flaunt their millions. As Ralph Destino, president of Cartier, puts it, "They...
Under Haiti's 1948 Penal Code, no group of more than 20 people can be formed without government permission. Some of the conclusions of a 1978 visit to Haiti of the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights have been published in Amnesty International's 1981 report and are consistent with Amnesty's findings on Haiti...
...most popular of these computer tongues is BASIC (for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code). Developed at Dartmouth by Mathematician John Kemeny and his colleague Thomas Kurtz to let even the least mathematically gifted student converse with the university's computers, it is "understood" by virtually all of today's personal computers. To show just how easy the language is, Kemeny offers this extremely simple lesson in programming: tell the computer to find the square roots (i.e., the numbers that when multiplied by themselves, yield the original numbers) of eleven successive values, say 20 through...