Word: coded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cambridge City Councilor Lawrence W. Frisoli proposed the order after learning from Harvard students that the college may have housed more people in these dorms than permitted by the Massachusetts Building Code...
However, Brewer added, "The most recent information shows that Harvard has stayed well within the limits of the code...
...bill as it now reads hides policy issues under a mountain of paper. Criminal code reform will remain a parody of lawmaking until legislators can devise a bill that they fully understand...
...Senate and the Justice Department dismiss this problem. Roger Pauley of the Department of Justice said, "A lot of members of Congress seize on any procedural issue to avoid coming to grips with the code reform issue. It is always rare that a majority or a substantial minority knows what they are voting on." The Post and The Times too editorially censured the House subcommittee for what they saw as an attempt to duck a complicated problem in an election year...
...such facile criticism misses the point. The House Judiciary Committee has not rejected comprehensive code reform. The committee members simply decided that they could not, in good conscience, pass legislation on faith, praying that the Senate had done a good job on the bill...