Word: code
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...electronic telephone directory. But they soon found the Minitel terminal equally convenient for paying bills, purchasing airline tickets and making theater reservations. Lately they have started shopping a la modem, issuing on-line orders for everything from foie gras to fine wines. "Each wine has a numeric code," explains Mayaux, as if buying a Burgundy electronically were the most natural thing in the world. "We punch it into the Minitel, and ten days later the wine arrives." The Mayauxs are not alone. Today some 4.5 million French men and women are shopping, banking, reading and, yes, flirting via Minitel...
...auto business, luxury and profits have become synonymous," says James Alexandre, who follows the industry for the investment firm Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. To help fill its luxury niche, Chrysler is gradually buying control of the Italian automaker Maserati. The first jointly produced car, priced at about $30,000 and code-named the Q- coupe, will be shipped from Italy late next year...
...tended to look as though they were made by the same cookie cutter. The first major departure will be the Beretta and Corsica, followed in the fall of 1987 by a line of intermediate-size autos, designated the W-body cars in keeping with Detroit's penchant for alphabetic code names. GM allotted nearly $7 billion, its largest development budget ever, to create the front-wheel-drive W-body models. While the cars have no names yet, their distinctive rounded shapes have been spotted on GM's test tracks...
Although construction has started, the developers have yet to be issued a permanant building permit, said City Zoning Specialist Rangit Singanyeagam. "There are some building code problems that have to be revised before a permit can be granted," he said...
Along with Enrile, Ramos spearheaded the weekend rebellion that toppled former President Ferdinand Marcos last February. He took action after the Philippine newspaper Business Day quoted "high-level" military sources as saying that disaffected military men planned an operation, code-named "God Save the Queen," to purge the Aquino government of "left-leaning elements" while retaining Aquino as President. The coup was to take place before the Feb. 2 referendum...