Word: coded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bert Lance had done or not done became of secondary importance. Jimmy Carter, followed by the supportive chorus of his naive aides, tried to tell the American people that what Bert Lance had done as a banker was quite normal and that Bert represented the Administration's highest code of conduct...
...class by themselves. They have been nicknamed the EE 304 cadets after the electrical-engineering course whose take-home examination was the focus of most of the charges. If the academy had followed tradition, none of the expelled cadets could have returned, for they had violated the rigid honor code: "A cadet will not lie, cheat or steal or tolerate those who do." It was only after an agonizing inquiry into the moral fabric of the academy that the Army ruled that any of the 152 cadets who had been kicked out in the scandal could apply for readmission...
...protection program was formally established after passage of the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970 to hasten the breakdown of omerta, the underworld code of silence. Relying on Title V, "Protected Facilities for Housing Government Witnesses," the Justice Department gave anti-Mob informers refuge in "safe houses" until their court testimony, then relocated them, perhaps after they had served prison time themselves...
...cross-indexes his medical journals to provide him with instant, tailor-made refresher courses on any disease he asks for. Ham Radio Operator Irving Osser of Beverly Hills has programmed his computer to keep a log of the people he talks to on his radio and to translate Morse code into a typewritten message. Boston Pediatrician Lawrence Reiner uses his machine to relax by playing TV games with his children. Robert Phillips, president of Gimix Inc., a Chicago firm that computerizes entire households, has installed terminals in every room of his Chicago apartment. He uses them to dim and brighten...
...time, though, the reader entertains the ghastly suspicion that the author has distorted her comedy in order to convey some symbolic code message. Not at all; the novel hasn't an idea in its head, and rightly so. If the Rumpelstiltskin business had been chucked out with Weldon's first draft, her account of Elsa's undoing could have scaled the foothills of superior nonsense...