Word: code
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More than 200 subpoenas. As many as 100 defense contracts subject to cancellation. Tens of billions of dollars at stake. All last week, the revelations coming out of the FBI and Naval Investigative Service probe code- named Operation Ill Wind continued to mushroom into the biggest and most important Pentagon scandal ever...
...jeans -- a few with service revolvers in ankle holsters -- hunch against tables piled with books. Some affect a jaunty air, but most wear the look of the condemned. These are New York City police officers battling through a seven-hour cram session that covers everything from the penal code to traffic regulations. They are preparing for exams to determine who will be promoted and who will...
...consumers supposed to tell good glasses from bad? It is not easy. Last year manufacturers adopted a voluntary labeling code developed by the nonprofit American National Standards Institute. Some glasses now carry tags saying MEETS ANSI STANDARDS. But critics charge the labels are inadequate. ANSI divides sunglasses into three categories: fashion spectacles that shield eyes from only 70% of UV-B and less than 60% of UV-A; everyday eyewear that screens out 95% of UV-B and between 60% and 92% of UV-A; and special-purpose glasses that absorb almost 99% of ultraviolet rays...
...months of dodging Massachusetts' now $400 million deficit, Michael Dukakis took a step that will allow the G.O.P. to hound him unmercifully: he signed a 5% sales tax on cigarettes, worth $40 million next year, and supported a measure to raise $75 million by aligning the state tax code with federal...
...National Liberation Army of the People's Mujahedin, a leftist Iranian dissident group, seized the border town of Mehran and drove its pro-Khomeini defenders beyond the surrounding hills. N.L.A. spokesmen claimed to have killed and wounded as many as 8,000 Iranian troops during the ten-hour battle, code-named Operation Forty Stars. Western reporters brought to the battle scene confirmed that the rebels had captured 1,500 Iranian prisoners, as well as tanks and artillery...