Word: coded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first time ever, a Princeton University student has registered for classes without premising to comply with its mandatory honor code...
...Although it is not difficult to absorb the rules, which 14 sings on the wall set forth (no loitering, no smoking in these booths at such and such a time, no food or drinks on the machines, no, no, no), you can easily fall afoul of Tommy's unwritten code. Says Jeffrey A. Edelstein '84-5, "One of the things that makes Tommy's so special is that a longtime patron such as myself can be so rudely treated." John, one of the countermen, flexes his heavily tattoed forearms and says with an ironic grin. "Where else...
...most famous enforcer of Tommy's code is Ralph, who has earned the curiously child like nickname "Ralph Rotten" in the course of his years behind the counter. Ralph, who often wears his nickname proudly emblazoned across a stretched and sweaty T-shirt, occasionally carries the code--no combing or booze, no feet off the floor, no combing your hair, no profanity, no clove cigarettes--to it's illogical extreme. As he works over the grill, slicing and frying, he radiates certain anger--feeling each new order is an unwarranted imposition. On occasion he explodes, and leaps over the counter...
...about unnecessary insults and mythic intimations with a wave of his hand. "We run a clean place," he says. The man who used to own "Honest Tom's" used car dealership takes great pride in his restaurant, and chooses his words carefully when he explain the reasoning "Tommy's code...
Through the last proxy progress report released by the Corporation, Harvard has shown its resolve to improve living and working conditions for non-whites in South Africa. The University's policy of engaging in "intensive dialogue" with portfolio companies not complying with Harvard's code of business ethics has met with at least limited success. Of the 10 companies approached last year by the University for lack of serious effort to fight segregation both in and out of the work place, four companies were dropped from the portfolio for financial reasons, the University divested of one particularly delinquent company...