Word: coded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mentioned that a short while earlier he had been telephoned by an Anaheim police officer who asked for a definition of death in connection with another case. Chatterton casually added that he had just found out that doctors generally use a definition found in the state health and safety code...
...Section 7180 of the health and safety code," Chatterton nonchalantly repeated. Until then, neither judge nor defense attorneys were aware that California law contained a legal definition of death...
...prosecutor protested vehemently, but the judge ruled that the jury would have to be brought back to court and informed of the discovery. Next day, visibly upset at having to change his instructions to the jurors, he told them the new definition of death as spelled out in the code: "The total and irreversible cessation of brain function." Since brain function had never been tested, the jury became confused...
Among CIA staffers it was known as IA-FEATURE; the letters IA being the agency's designation for the target country, Angola, and FEATURE the code word for a special covert operation. When the IAFEATURE task force was assembled in late summer 1975, on the eve of Angola's independence from Portugal, it was handed a mission nearly impossible: to help two Angolan leaders who would presumably remain friendly to the West when the big, troubled former colony went off on its own. The IAFEATURE directors, who worked out of a "vaulted" (super-secure) office...
...result of the new rates, more companies will deliver letters to the Postal Service in bundles presorted by Zip code, for which they now earn a penny-a-piece discount; that discount will double under the new rate schedule. Security Pacific Bank, for example, will shortly mail all customer statements not from its 530 branches in California but from its Los Angeles headquarters, using automated equipment. Some businesses may turn more to private mail-delivery services; the Wall Street Journal, Reader's Digest and Time Inc. already use carriers to hand-deliver some papers and magazines...