Word: code
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...then the Soviets put Nicholas Daniloff in an isolation cell, took away his shoelaces and belt, and told him he might be charged with espionage. The Moscow veterans dusted off their copies of the Soviet criminal code and looked up Article 65. Espionage committed by a foreigner, it says, "shall be punished by deprivation of freedom for a term of seven to 15 years with confiscation of property, with or without additional exile for a term of two to five years, or by death." The situation seems a little less funny than it used...
...Mafia's tradition of omerta, the code of silence, is explicit: betray the family and pay with your life. But beginning with the televised confessions of Cosa Nostra Songbird Joseph Valachi in 1963, that code has been repeatedly violated. At the racketeering trial of reputed Mafia Boss John Gotti last week in Brooklyn federal court, omerta suffered one of its rudest shocks...
...northbound, altitude unknown." Re- sponded 498: "Roger." This plane is not believed to have been Kramer's Piper. Seconds later the controller's attention was diverted by a "pop-up," a small plane that unexpectedly radioed for traffic advice and instrument control. The controller assigned the plane a transponder code for identification as the craft flew across the Los Angeles Basin. But precious time was wasted when the pilot got the number wrong and had to be corrected...
...reform may cost my job, but it is a long-overdue effort at making the tax code equitable for the working people. If the bill must be modified, I hope the Washington politicians will let common sense and simplification prevail...
Obviously, the political and strategic constraints placed on Eisenhower dictated the way he waged the campaign. But never before have these problems been spelled out in such day-by-day, sometimes hour-by-hour detail. The D-day Normandy invasion of June 6, 1944, code named OVERLOAD, was plagued by foul weather, shortages and doubt up to the moment that Ike said, "O.K., we'll go." Churchill called this operation "undoubtedly the most complicated and difficult that has ever taken place," which sounds like understatement in the context of David Eisenhower's meticulous reconstruction of the event...