Word: code
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There is really no dress code. People should wear what they feel most comfortable in, although it should also be their best stuff," says Elizabeth Gillis '82, co-chairman of the committee which planned the event. "I'll be wearing a very simple black dress...
...only did the planners not consult the student body, but they also excluded a substantial number of less affluent students who can't afford to go to the ball. For all its faults, at least the 350th in September didn't have a dress code...
Despite an unspoken code of quiet in the pressbox, the Holy Cross coaches whooped it up every chance they got. They clapped, laughed, and hooted throughout the game. They were studies in contrast to the Harvard coaches in last week's blowout of Columbia; in that game, the Crimson coaching staff was coldly clinical, quietly analyzing the game and the Harvard players...
...Although the law was not intended either to raise or reduce revenues, TIME's economists agreed that no one can know for sure what its impact on the budget will be. And for all the rhetoric from Congress and the White House about the need to simplify the tax code, the reform bill still contains many vagaries. Tax shelters affecting real estate, for example, have + been effectively squelched, but those involving oil and gas exploration remain relatively untouched. In Aaron's view, the major business losers under the new code would be the office- and apartment-construction industries, some public...
...self-styled scrapper with the sturdy perseverance of a tugboat. She sharply turns aside comments that she does not "look senatorial." Says the candidate: "A lot of Americans, black or white or female, are always told that they don't look the part. It's one of the oldest code words...