Word: coded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...read with interest your article "The Remaking of S-l," regarding proposals to recodify the federal criminal code [April 4]. As part of that article, your correspondent emphasized the work being done in the Senate, and referred to the House Judiciary Committee as having "long been a graveyard for complicated legislation." I must take serious objection to that comment. The members of the committee have worked too hard for too many years on too many pieces of complex and highly technical legislation to permit that remark to stand without rebuttal...
...Voting Rights Act of 1965, initiated and passed the first major revision of antitrust laws in more than 25 years, and conducted two unprecedented constitutional inquiries under the 25th Amendment. We are now and have since 1973 been closely examining the very issue raised in your article-criminal code reform...
...SENATE: Majority Leader Robert Byrd has strongly endorsed Carter's plan, but he must deal with the worries of some of the staunchest Democrats. Massachusetts' Edward Kennedy, for example, fears that the President's proposals may slip new "loopholes" for business into the tax code. Byrd's own majority whip, Alan Cranston, represents California, the largest gas-guzzling state in the Union, and Cranston has already expressed doubts about the standby gasoline...
...helpful to know that the Wallace definition of "list" is generous. This is a list: a) one dozen eggs, b) asparagus, c) coffee, d) truffles. These, the editors say, are also lists: a) the Hammurabic Code, b) the Ten Commandments...
NOTHING IS SACRED ANYMORE; what with Watergate and the ongoing protest of radical priests in America, both politics and religion seem to be becoming tagged as code-words for corruption and cover-up. Cynics increasingly view both church and state as homes for the fanatically ambitious, who brandish the Bible and the Constitution indiscriminately in their struggles for power. Politicians now supplement arm-twisting with prayer, while prelates and deacons have perfected the art of political infighting...