Word: code
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Some history becomes myth, some myth goes down in history, some statistics boggle the mind: the Beatles have sold, all over the world, upwards of 200 million records. They made history so quickly, and so seismically, that their chronology can be given like a code, or an association game in which words, phrases, snatches of lyrics, names, can stand for whole years. Even the skeptical on either side of the Beatles generation will be startled to see how easily they can play along. Start off with an easy one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Now you're off . . . Ed Sullivan. Jelly...
...just that rationale that prompted the Senate to include a sentence-appeal provision in its version of the proposed mammoth revision of the criminal code, which has been lumbering through Congress for 14 years. As drafted, the provision would permit either side in a federal case to appeal sentences that fall outside a middle range. Under present law the Government may appeal only when the defendant is judged a dangerous special offender (like DiFrancesco) or a "special drug offender." As for defendants, they can appeal only sentences that are cruel and unusual, discriminatory, or beyond the statutory range...
Because of Wellesley's self-paced exam system, which allows students to schedule their exams at either 9 a.m. or 2 p.m. over three days, the Honor Code at Wellesley is very strict. "You can't ask people if the exam was easy or hard, and you can't talk to a friend if you are upset about an exam, so what you find are multitudes of girls calling their mothers to cry about their finals," Trippe says...
Over the years, Congress has fiddled with the tax code to allow deductions for investments in ventures considered worthwhile but risky, like coal mining, oil drilling and public housing construction. The shelters encouraged the wealthy to invest chunks of income that would otherwise have been heavily taxed. The problem was that in some cases lawyers and accountants found clever ways to make such investments appear much larger on paper than they actually were. In 1976 a major revision of the tax code eliminated some of the most abused shelter provisions...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN probably would have liked the OAD's simplicity. Words appear in large, clear, bold-face type, and even better the pronunciations are given in normal, English letters, not in the incomprehensible, upside-down, umlaut- laden code favored by Webster's and American Heritage. Franklin might be less pleased with the OAD because he doesn't appear in it. The editors mysteriously decided to include the spellings of every nation in the world and their capitals (Umtata is the capital of Transkei) but to avoid all personal names except those of the 40 Presidents of the United States. Vice...