Word: coded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...down-home Middle America that he hopes to build the constituency that will support him when he has to make the tough decisions on foreign and domestic problems. It is partly to open the foreign affairs dialogue to a broader audience that Carter has been tossing about such code phrases as "defensible borders" for Israel and "a Palestinian homeland," with little apparent regard for the experts' delicate definitions...
...West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, angered by a hard new U.S. stand on economic, nuclear and defense issues, struggles to understand the complex personality of the evangelist in the White House. Israelis and Arabs wonder what the President means by his seemingly offhand use of heavily freighted Middle Eastern code words. Brazil's prickly military leaders-along with other authoritarian regimes in Latin America's southern cone-bristle at Washington's finger pointing. Even the studiously cautious Japanese raise a diplomatic eyebrow or two as their Premier embarks on a visit to Washington amid growing worries about...
...Ethics Committee holds public hearings, and will report back to the full body with a draft of a new code of ethics...
...began with an apparent error of inexperience. Greeting Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, the President said that Israel should be granted "defensible borders" in any peace agreement with the Arabs. Since "defensible borders" has been a code phrase for Israel's argument not to return the Arab lands it has occupied since the 1967 war, Carter's statement alarmed State Department officials and Arab diplomats...
Rather than imposing massive reform, the act tinkers and fine-tunes. It narrows some long-abused loopholes, widens others; it tidies up some of the messiest corners of the tax code and introduces new complexities into others. To cope with it, taxpayers must attempt to comprehend subtle variations in meaning and vague, ambiguous words and phrases. Among other things, the law will be forcing many more taxpayers than ever to learn the distinction between a deduction and a tax credit (a deduction is subtracted from the income subject to tax: a credit is subtracted directly from the amount...