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Word: coded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most of his 56 years. His father Will was a traveling salesman who fought a lifelong battle against alcohol and financial insecurity. His mother Elizabeth was one of the genteel metal magnolias who, despite generosity to their black servants, Price notes, were the "chief conveyors" of the racist code that cursed the pre-King South...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Born Witness | 7/10/1989 | See Source »

Pickens became Koito's largest stockholder last March, when his investment firm took over the shares (estimated cost: more than $800 million) from Kitaro Watanabe, a billionaire Japanese real estate speculator. In a project code- named Falcon, after Pickens' private jet, the Texan claims his goal is "to maximize the profits and value of Koito for all the shareholders." He asserts that Japanese companies put corporate interests before those of individual shareholders, notably by reinvesting profits in the company rather than increasing dividends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: T. Boone's Tokyo Campaign | 7/10/1989 | See Source »

...case of the century." As Secretary of Defense in the spring of 1987, he was confronted with evidence that Marine guards at the U.S. embassy in Moscow had not only "fraternized" with Soviet women but also allowed KGB agents to break into the inner sanctum of the embassy -- the code room, from which sensitive messages are sent to Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moscow Bug Hunt | 7/10/1989 | See Source »

...parts of Bracy's statement were demonstrably false. All charges against him were dropped for lack of evidence. By late 1987 security officials began to concede, a little sheepishly, that no bugs had yet been found in the equipment removed from the Post Communications Center, or PCC, as the code room is known. (The room is sometimes referred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moscow Bug Hunt | 7/10/1989 | See Source »

When antiwar activists look at an inverted Y inside a circle, they see a symbol for peace. But some school officials in Pasadena, Texas, detect something satanic: an upside-down broken cross that signifies the defeat of Christianity. This week they will vote on a new student dress code that would allow principals to outlaw the sign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Texas: Antiwar or Antichrist? | 7/3/1989 | See Source »

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