Word: coded
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Resumption of trade-and later, U.S. diplomatic recognition-could accomplish even more than an aid program in helping Hanoi. The country is drawing up a sophisticated foreign investment code that would allow production-sharing agreements on natural resources, including oil, and up to 49% capitalist participation in other enterprises. Moreover, a group of visiting Japanese oil prospectors has been given the curious news that petroleum development was reserved for "the American sector." Observes one U.S. banker: "All the signals are there. They want to get back into the ball game, and the U.S. is the key to that...
...Mexico's rugged, majestic Sierra Madre Occidental. A copter scarcely touches down before soldiers leap out, their Belgian FAL rifles at the ready. The troops belong to a 2,300-man special force drawn from the best units in the Mexican army. They are carrying out a mission, code-named "Operation Condor," that began last month. Their enemy is an empire where marijuana grows by the acre and the blood-red amapola poppy-the opium plant-flourishes...
...more a frame of mind than a fashion, a zip code rather than a style. Yet the new look from California-it might be called the Pacific Overture-is swiveling eyes and stoking department-store sales from coast to coast. So far this year, the young California Contemporary Fashion Guild, representing 32 West Coast designers, has rung up about $40 million in sales; in 1976 the group grossed $100 million...
...cent beers and Southie camaraderie are the hallmarks of this non-disco disco. The management says that since the recent institution of a dress code ("no jeans, no T-shirts, no work clothes, no sneakers, no work boots, no...."), Mad Hatter crowds have been a great deal more manageable than in the past. "If a guy's wearing a 25-dollar shirt, he's not gonna wanna get it all messed up in a fight," explains a friendly bouncer...
...another instance, Fell says that although the ancient Phoenicians claimed that their raw materials came from Gaul, they really got them from North America, for which they used Gaul as a code name to deceive their commercial rivals...