Word: coded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pilot Systems. The heart of the operation is a product-coding system under which each of thousands of commonly sold items is identified by a ten-digit number-33900-10020 for an 8-oz. package of Jones hickory-smoked bacon, for example. Postage-stamp-sized rectangles printed on boxes or labels by the packager carry both the product's code number and a set of light and heavy lines that allow an optical scanner set in the newfangled check-out counters to identify each item. The scanner feeds the data to a computer programmed with the store...
Graveyard Mirth. On a trumped-up charge that some sportive local bloods have attempted to rape her, Silia demands that Leone issue a dueling challenge to one of them, a Marquis Miglioriti. The code requires that a husband avenge an insult to his wife's honor, so Leone accedes and presses Guido, who also happens to be his good friend, into serving as his second. Guido issues an unconditional challenge, only too slyly aware that the marquis is both a crack pistol shot and a master swordsman. But Leone makes the final move on the chessboard of fate...
...Mills has made the committee's intricate tax-writing and budgetary chores his special province. By the time he assumed the committee chairmanship in 1958, he was the undisputed master of revenue legislation in the House. In the years since, his formidable grasp of the U.S. tax code has made committee members and Congress reliant on the chairman and consolidated Mills' power...
...happiness, often the lives, of his family (his wife, his elder brother, old associates). The end finds him stripped of everything he once valued except the one thing he found essential-unquestioned, unquestionable authority. It seems a far more terrible punishment than the bloody retributions the old movie code used to insist on applying to Scarface, Little Caesar and their...
Terrible Decision. This is not a book on code breaking. Winterbotham passes over the mechanics of Enigma to deal with the Allied use of its output. Dissemination of Ultra intelligence had to be limited to only a few senior commanders, lest the Germans (and later the Japanese, who also used Enigma machines) should discover the awful truth...