Word: coded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Condoning or excusing violence is more indicative of a declining morality than is a vanishing dress code...
Earlier this year, twelve major U.S. companies agreed to end segregation and promote fair employment practices in their South African plants. Last week the European Community agreed to a new code of conduct for European subsidiaries in South Africa. Although nonbinding, the code forbids wage discrepancies between races and allows blacks to join trade unions and join in collective bargaining. If the rules are observed, the economic impact on South Africa could be dramatic, although there is a danger that companies may simply raise the salaries of some black workers while abolishing the jobs of others...
...material which normally transcribes the genetic code on DNA, but in some viruses RNA takes the place...
...waning days of the summer of '70. Helms left the White House in the late afternoon with very precise orders from the President: to take any measure short of assassination to stop Chilean president-elect Salvador Allende from taking office later that year, a plot that took on the code name of "Track II." A team player in the best Nixonesque sense of the word, Helms instructed CIA operatives to contact the most powerful elements in the Chilean Right that fall, hoping to pressure Allende's opponents into staging a military coup that would abort the Popular Unity government...
...code words for the new transfer process are decentralization and mechanization. For the first time since "master's choice"--a system now replaced by the lottery where each master decided who could enter his House--guided the housing system years ago, masters will have the primary responsibility for deciding who will live in their Houses. And in a switch from the days when Eleanor Marshall, former assistant to the deans of the College for housing, personally and unsystematically handled all transfers, applicants will submit their forms simultaneously at the beginning of each semester, learn of their fate two weeks later...