Word: code
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...largest sellers of infant formula, for a study of the use of baby-food supplements, a highly charged Third World issue. The companies making such products were already under fierce attack; last month the World Health Organization's member countries voted 118 to 1 (the U.S.) for a code sharply limiting the advertising and marketing of infant formulas. In his testimony before the committee on May 18, Lefever had said the Nestle contributions, which eventually totaled more than $25,000, had been made only after he commissioned the study...
This new industry, which manipulates the genetic code by splicing strands of DNA, still looks like one of the fastest growing businesses of the 1980s. After a long study, the Office of Technology Assessment concluded: "Genetic technologies may contribute to filling some of the most fundamental needs of mankind -from health care to supplies of food and energy." Yet both Wall Street and the public are taking a longer-term view of the potential profits from recombinant DNA research. Says Richard B. Emmitt, vice president of research for F. Eberstadt of New York: "Most people have been too optimistic about...
...three nights in a row, Weston's townspeople-housewives and commuters, doctors and architects, retired businessmen and young divorcees-wrestle with the dilemma, and by then it is clear that for many of them, "quality education" is really just a code phrase for a far more mercantile concept: the propping up of Weston's sky-high property values...
...years as a Vietnamese prisoner in solitary, his feet manacled to the floor for months at a time. Nonetheless, he maintained a chain of command in the P.O.W. camps and endured savage beatings for it. When forced to video-tape a confession, he blinked his eyes in Morse code to send the world a message, "Torture...
...bank is also promoting a new way of making a cash withdrawal. Customers telephone a designated number, give a code word like "hot dog," and traveler's checks with a perfect electronic copy of the customer's signature are sent out. The checks are insured against loss or theft, and the bank believes that they will soon be as popular as cash...