Word: coded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...position, Krauss said he plans to continue developing an "adequate vocabulary" for designers, to promote the use of formalism to express human values and to create a more flexible code for designers...
Once upon a time there was a small group of tenants and a big landlord. The tenants weren't happy with their building's numerous health code violations, so they complained to their landlord. The landlord would not act, so the tenants took legal action and forced him to respond. The landlord then made all the repairs, and they all lived happily ever after...
...number of tenants in 22-24 Prescott St., a Harvard owned building, complained in November about their building's condition and the repairs have not yet been completed. They also may face a rent increase for "capital improvements" which they say only brings the building up to the health code, the basic requirements for habitability of an apartment. After six months of negotiations, some tenants were threatened with eviction. Still, the tenants consider the amount of repairs they have gotten, and the eviction and larger rent increase they have avoided important enough to view their struggle as a victory, Howard...
...requests was for a unique dispensation from the tax code's complex "loss carry-back and carry-forward" provisions to permit Chrysler's net operating losses to be applied now against future profits. Result: Chrysler would get a refund from the Treasury equal to the amount of taxes it would have paid if it had had profits instead of losses...
...letters while his sons roasted onions in their ashes, and Henry James destroyed 40 years of correspondence. Walt Whitman carefully tore pages out of his notebooks, altered the sequence of his love poems so that no one could figure out to whom they were addressed, and wrote in code the initials of his lovers...