Word: code
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...WORTH considering how Kilson's academy looks up close. Consider what happened last semester when students adopted Kilson's tactics, coming up with their own code-word for racism--"racially insensitive"--and used it in pitting themselves against the Winthrop Professor of History, Stephan Thernstrom. The students, who brought their complaint before a College committee, objected to remarks Thernstrom made in Historical Studies A-25: "The Peopling of America," including characterizations of Jim Crow laws as beneficial to Blacks in diffusing white antagonism...
Weld predicted that McKay will charge that Meese violated the "Standards of Ethical Conduct for Government Officers and Employees," an ethics code that carries no criminal penalties but would require action by the department's Office of Professional Responsibility. The shaken Meese tried to persuade the two not to do anything "hotheaded." They said their resignations had already been handed to White House Chief of Staff Howard Baker...
Many companies are enlisting technology to get a jump on competitors. To bring inventories closer into line with sales, a growing number of retailers are using the bar-code system pioneered more than a decade ago by the grocery industry. As each item is rung up on the cash register, a company computer reads the product bar code and makes a change in its inventory records. In addition, several chains, including J.C. Penney and May Department Stores, now use private satellite television networks to link their outlets so that individual stores can exchange sales and inventory data with headquarters...
Wasserman said he plans to study "criminal justice and the delivery of criminal services." He said that although an unwritten ethical code exists for attorneys, it is not enforced and leads to many ethical dilemmas...
...supervisors were cleared of all charges through a decision by the judge, who also dismissed claims of discrimination under state and federal civil rights acts and Chapter 151b of the state code. The jury, however, found discrimination under Harvard's anti-discrimination contract with Walters' union...