Word: coded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...These people do keep very, very good records, albeit oftentimes in code," said Betsy Houghteling, revenue department spokesperson. "We'll get them, we'll go through them and really perform a regular audit on these people and [levy the taxes]...on what the records indicate...
...investigators determined that it would take KGB safecrackers one to four hours to crack each lock inside the code room. Opening the CIA vault would trigger another set of sensors that would ring at the Marine post. It would also be recorded by a device that counted the number of times the door was opened and closed. This counter was displayed inside a tamperproof box: if a KGB spy tried to open it and change the number, he would destroy certain indicators inside the device. Having destroyed them, he would not be able to examine them in order to duplicate...
...when, contrary to Bracy's confession, he said he had never let Soviets into the embassy or involved Bracy in any espionage activities. More important, investigators concluded, ; even if Bracy had been a spy, without Lonetree's cooperation he could not have given the Soviets enough access to the code room to allow them to bug it and leave no trace...
...casinos to sports books to lotteries, gambling has mushroomed into a $278 billion business this year. A short while ago it was illegal; today its biggest promoters are the state governments. -- Despite the Marine spy scandal, U.S. investigators now contend that Soviet agents did not bug the Moscow embassy code room. See NATION...
...most of the new chapter sounded decidedly familiar. There was no talk of changing the body of law that lies at the heart of South Africa's apartheid. There was repeated mention of "group rights," a code phrase for continuing white control. The black Congress of South African Trade Unions dismissed the proposal as "old formulas." And despite the announced five-year deadline for reform, De Klerk, who is scheduled to take office in September, admitted, "I would not like to tie myself down to a timetable...