Word: code
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...million last year. The company is currently modifying the Apple II to reduce manufacturing costs and this summer will introduce a less expensive version called the Super II. It is also preparing to unveil early next year a new machine that already has the computer world abuzz. Code-named Lisa, after one of Jobs' ex-girlfriends, it is both more powerful and easier to use than Apple...
...drain from LDC's renegotiation of the debts of LDC's preferential transfer of technology and appropriate industries to LDC's expansion of the Generalized System of Preferences; formation of buffer stocks, producers associations, and indexation programs with respect to the major commodities of LDC's creation of a code of conduct for transnationals; and an increase in the role of Special Drawing Rights in the international monetary system). And if we cannot give significant support to the NIEO, then we should move quickly to frame our own comprehensive alternative--that is, if we really mean it when...
...those who roamed the Spanish Main. Some are calling phone numbers, where computers will tell them how to copy programs. One on New York's Long Island calls itself Pirate's Cove, while another in Boston is Pirate's Newbor. Other computer users are buying code-cracking programs like Locksmith, which sells for $99.95 from Chicago's Omega MicroWare. Locksmith cracks the coding schemes for most Apple Computer programs and permits them to be copied. Hardcore Computing, a small magazine in Tacoma, Wash., warns pirates about the latest technology that companies are using against them...
Three weeks ago a Medical School committee charged with devising guidelines for doctors writing letters of reference called for a policy that most observers say is indicated by common sense. According to the proposed code, anyone writing a letter of recommendation should include all of the information which he would like to know were he to receive the letter...
...number will be divisible by 17. A Masters and Johnson study found that the average male has a sex-related thought every 17 seconds; there are 17 steps from the landing to the door in Sherlock Holmes' house at 221b (13 x 17b) Baker Street; Harvard's College Board code is 3434 (17 times 202); and the world record for sitting in a tub of tomato ketchup is 17 hours...