Word: coded
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...come from outside the West Bank, Gaza and Jordan, and that they "need not be citizens of Egypt or Jordan." Moreover, the U.S. believes that a political solution for the occupied territories must also recognize the "legitimate rights of the Palestinian people and their just requirements." In the complicated code-word diplomacy of the Middle East, these seemingly innocent phrases meant to Jerusalem that the U.S. favored the participation of Israel's implacable enemy, the Palestine Liberation Organization...
Barnes, an administrative law judge for the Federal Trade Commission, last week ruled that the American Medical Association's code of ethics illegally restrains competition among doctors by preventing them from advertising. That policy, said the judge, has resulted in virtual price fixing, deprived consumers of the information they need in selecting a doctor and "stifled the rise of almost every type of health care delivery that could potentially pose a threat to the income of fee-for-service physicians in private practice...
Barnes' ruling must still be approved by the FTC commissioners, after which doctors will be able to start hiring copywriters. The A.M.A. will appeal the order. Dr. Robert B. Hunter, chairman of the A.M.A.'s board of trustees, noted that the organization's code does not prohibit advertising, only solicitation of patients. The distinction: ads provide pertinent information such as type of practice, office hours, and even the schedule of fees; solicitation involves self-laudatory or fraudulent claims, or patients' testimonials. The prohibition, says the A.M.A., is meant to protect the public from unscrupulous hucksters...
...A.M.A. was particularly outraged by Barnes' order that future ethical guidelines first get the FTC O.K. Said Hunter: "There is no legal precedent in the United States for the federal bureaucracy to write or approve a code of ethics for any of the learned professions...
During his first from as speaker. O'Neill fought to secure the passage of President Carter's energy package and was instrumental in the institution of a new code of ethics for House members...