Word: coded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Persons convicted of "crimes of rebellion or sedition" under Spain's rigid military code. This clause will free, among others, nine officers convicted in March of membership in the illegal Military Democratic Union, a moderate group dedicated to democracy and the reform of the military establishment...
...Stanley Kowalski, but for the way Vivian Leigh and Marlon Brando take personal possession of them. Only Leigh could have pulled off all those "I don't want realism, I want magic" lines with such charm. And Brando, in his first major role, delivers a lecture on the Napoleonic Code itself worth the price of admission. Neither role is burdened with too much realism; but, like Blanche, Williams works best with magic and myth. Or, to cop another duBois-ism, "50 per cent of this film's charm is illusion." If you haven...
...First, there would be a drastic simplification of the tax code. Second, there would be taxation of income only once. Third, all income would be treated basically the same. My inclination would be to treat capital gains the same as income earned from labor. Finally, I would have a truly progressive tax rate so that persons who have the higher incomes would pay a higher percentage of their income in taxes...
...Yugoslavs and the Rumanians demanded that China not be mentioned. Then, Soviet-sponsored drafts of the preconference communique were purged of such ritual assertions that Communist parties "share identical objectives and are guided by common ideology." The Italians, Spaniards and Yugoslavs angrily excised the expression "proletarian internationalism," a code phrase signifying the Kremlin's self-arrogated right to put down rebellious parties...
...basic reform of the common-law system-which regards married women as legal nonentities with virtually no property rights-is not likely to come from John Adams, however. He responded to his mutinous wife's "saucy" request with characteristic firmness: "As to your extraordinary code of laws, I cannot but laugh." The delegates, he added, "know better than to repeal our masculine systems" and would fight the "despotism of the petticoat...