Word: coded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Supreme Court has ruled that community standards, rather than national standards, should determine whether material is obscene, but Cambridge's code is too vague to justify the revocation of the license, Higley said...
Beyond restricting outside earned income, the code also prohibits...
...code also rules out the apparently widespread practice of creating slush funds from unreported sources to meet various office expenses of members. However, it increases the personal expense allowance from $2,000 to $7,000 a year...
...disclosure provisions of the code are stringent. To be revealed are: the source and amount of any income more than $100; the source and value of gifts over $100, and transportation, food, lodging or entertainment valued at over $250; the general amount of any financial holdings worth $1,000 or more; any debt exceeding $2,500, except home mortgages; any transaction in securities or commodities exceeding...
...Senate is considering a nearly identical code, and is expected to pass it next week-although the anguish may be even greater in that chamber. Since the Senators are generally in more demand for speeches and those who are lawyers are often of more value to law firms, their outside income is often higher than that of House members. Senator Hubert Humphrey, .for example, earned $81,000 in speaking engagements in one year, George McGovern $80,000. (Humphrey has never been secretive about such benefits; a sign in his Waverly, Minn., home proclaims: THE HOUSE THAT WIND BUILT...