Word: code
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Title 5, Section 7311 of the U.S. Code, which states that a federal civil servant may not continue to hold his job if he takes part in a strike against the Government; and the oath, signed by all federal employees, not to strike. But firing a federal employee is not as easy as a form letter. Two weeks after the first pink slip went out, the matter was still very much...
...money they have found on arrested dealers has ended up in their pockets. Beyond that, Ciello -whose story is based on that of New York Detective Robert Leuci a decade ago-knows much, much more, mostly about who in law enforcement is on the take. By his own code, Ciello sees himself as honorable: he has never taken a bribe to let a criminal go free or betrayed his detective partners. But his sins of commission and omission nag at him, and when an insinuating investigator from what eventually becomes a special commission on police corruption begins working...
...this movie's strengths is that it passes no judgment on the relative merits of Leuci's code and the more impersonal workings of the criminal code. Nor does it speculate on motives. It merely presents the behavior of people under pressure and causes the viewer to wonder whether anyone would have done better in similar circumstances...
Deep-cover Nazi agent kicks off his covers and must try to pull them up over him again-at least until the submarine picks him up, and he can get back to Germany with the Allied invasion plans. Donald Sutherland plays the spy, code-named Needle, and Kale Nelligan is a miserably married woman, living with her embittered husband on a remote island off the Scottish coast. Naturally the Needle washes up there. Naturally they fall in love. Naturally, in the end, she must choose between love and patriotic duty. As a bestseller, this was a good read...
Simon said that if any aspect of the federal code is rescinded, schools like Harvard might be encouraged to ease their efforts to maintain affirmative action programs. "What we fear is throwing the baby out with the bath water," Simon said. "If they want to redesign reporting forms, they should do that, not withdraw substantive guarantees of federal supervision...