Word: coded
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During routine maintenance or refueling of a nuke, lowering a reactor's normal operating temperatures of about 315° C (600° F) is as simple as the binary code of the computer that does most of the work. Control rods are automatically dropped into the fuel core, which in effect douses its nuclear fires by stopping the fissioning of uranium atoms. Within several hours the temperature drops to 140° C (280° F). Then fresh coolant water is pumped through the reactor's heat exchanger (or steam generator) until the reactor's temperature dwindles to a still warm 65° C (150?...
Defendants in the revolutionary courts are tried under the Shari'a, the Islamic law based primarily on the Koran, rather than under Iran's penal code. Trials are conducted by a five-man panel of judges. Verdicts in the trials, some of which have lasted less than an hour, are reached by a majority vote of the judges; the sentence is handed down by the senior judge, whose appointment is approved by Khomeini, and carried out immediately. There are no appeals. The new regulations allow for defense attorneys, though none were seen at last week's trials...
...Open up government purchasing to international competitive bidding. Despite the new code, Japan has refused so far to allow outsiders to bid for some of its most lucrative government business. That action has incensed the U.S., as Strauss made clear in talks last week with Japanese Foreign Minister Sunao Sonoda...
...instructed not to remove their white gloves until they have safely passed through a neighboring town. There will of course be no question of disencumbering themselves from all their heavy corsetry. The time is 1900, and the place is provincial Australia; the most repressive tenets of the Victorian behavioral code, especially regarding sexuality, are rigidly enforced...
...also expected to observe the Shari'a, which means "the path to follow." Based on the Koran, the deeds and sayings of Muhammad and the consensus of Islamic scholars, the Shari'a is not just a compilation of criminal and civil law, but a complex, all embracing code of ethics, morality and religious duties. It is a sophisticated system of jurisprudence that summarizes 1,400 years of experience and constantly adapts, in subtle ways, to new circumstances...