Word: coded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although the Justice Department could conceivably charge Martin with violating the U.S. Code for "gathering, transmitting or losing defense information," it probably will not. The FBI'S conclusion: the case against the careless diplomat should be dropped...
...through the party since last spring's electoral disaster. The brooding began in April, when Communist Secretary-General Georges Marchais came under widespread attack in party ranks as the cause of the disaster. Critics charged that party leaders' autocratic exercise of "democratic centralism"-the party's code word for unquestioned rule from the top-had provoked the split with François Mitterrand's Socialists and the splintering of the once confident Union de la Gauche. When Marchais chose simply to blame the Socialists rather than examine in cold detail the causes of the March defeat...
...growing number of Sullivan Code signatures suggests, most U.S. corporations have decided they are willing to be judged by that standard. Now it is up to them to turn in performances that will quiet their critics and bring more tangible benefits to the blacks and coloreds of South Africa...
...Sullivan Code: total desegregation of eating, work and toilet facilities in plants; equal employment opportunities; comparable pay for all employees in the same jobs; development of apprentice and management trainee programs for nonwhites; promotion of blacks and coloreds to higher posts; improvement of employees' living conditions; and support for unionization efforts by nonwhites...
...defended walled town. There was a more fundamental reason for perpetual war, however. As Tuchman says of the English, "Essentially, Gloucester and the barons of his party were opposed to peace because they felt war to be their occupation." Fighting was supposed to be conducted according to the chivalric code, but actually it was a business, entered into for the purposes of seizing loot, capturing prisoners to ransom, securing bribes in return for mercy shown, and, it would seem, as an excuse to extract additional taxes. Yet the levying mechanism of the emerging nation-state was still not refined...