Word: coded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thought to myself, why should I be so ruthless on the Dartmouth people? Why should I call them farmers just because the zip code of Hanover, N.H. is FIEIO? Why should I criticize their high school addiction to beer? Why should I harp on their school's incredible inferiority complex towards Harvard, Yale, New York, the Bronx, and Staten Island too? Why should I snicker about the school's female population, which, not counting the women who work in the dining hall, has yet to reach three figures? Why should I dwell on the fact that their football team suffers...
...computer revolution began coming to supermarkets in the early '70s in the form of the UPC (Universal Product Code), the odd, stamp-size box of black bars and numbers printed on just about everything from soup cans to the covers of TIME magazines sold in the U.S. The UPC was to be the core of a system that would not only keep up-to-date records on inventories and prices, but also eliminate cash register errors, since check-out clerks would tot up a shopper's bill by merely passing the purchases over an optical scanner capable...
Housing inspectors for the Cambridge Health Department cited Dunster House last month for violating the ordinance. Inspectors also cited Kirkland House, Dudley House, and Wigglesworth Hall for violations of other sections of the housing code. Problems ranged from peeling paint to a hole in a wall to a missing fire escape...
...aging party goons he has assembled in the great house in Paraguay: Kill 94 men, all of them petty civil servants scattered around the world, and kill them on or near their 65th birthdays as they occur over the next 2½ years. Still, true to their code, the Nazis obey his command unquestioningly...
Because of this contamination, when the scientists tried to produce the genetic code for human insulin, they wound up with the code for rat insulin instead. The scientists have already successfully cloned rat insulin...