Word: coded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rainy Sunday morning in March, Brown Admissions Director Jim Rogers and three committee members contemplate a fat computer printout. It measures, in code, the credentials of the 11,421 high school seniors who have applied to Brown. Next to each applicant's name, a long string of numbers and cryptic abbreviations shows college board scores, class rank, grade-point average and a preliminary rating for academic promise and personal quality on a scale of 1 to 6. Other symbols reveal more: "LEG 1" is a legacy, the son of a Brown alumnus. "M1" is a black; "M8" a Chicano...
...rating of average usually means the guidance counselor thinks there is something seriously wrong," explains Admissions Officer Paulo de Oliveira. Mary's interview with a Brown alumnus was also lukewarm, and worse, she has written a "jock essay," i.e., a very short one. Rogers scrawls a Z, the code for rejection, on her folder...
...system is fair and equitable" too if I were Henry and Richard Bloch with their $81 million [March 12]. When better than half of all taxpayers seek out professional tax preparers to guide them through the mind-stunning incomprehensibility and convoluted jargon, one understands why our present tax code is referred to as the "C.P.A.s' and Tax Preparers' Relief...
...spying secretaries were East German control agents. As it happens, even before the latest defections, Bonn had launched a campaign to tighten its security system; it included a special warning for unmarried female employees. Posters in government buildings show a man nuzzling a woman. The caption: "There is a code word that opens safes: love." Beneath that: "Your partner has been married for a long time-to the East German state security service. Please think about...
There is no hope of mating such an opponent. Bukovsky, 36, played only to guarantee his rights under the Soviet Constitution and Criminal Code. His gambit was to exchange a third of his life in prisons and psychiatric clinics for the dignity of saying nyet. It gained him an international reputation for incorrigible heroics. In 1976 the Soviet government solved their embarrassment by swapping Bukovsky for Chilean Communist Luis Corvalan, then a prisoner of the Pinochet dictatorship. Today Bukovsky lives in England, where he has resumed his frequently interrupted study of biology...