Word: coded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unit's main task will be to uphold the country's revised criminal code, which is designed to make prosecutions easier, and to investigate death-squad murders. The first case on their blotter: the 1980 assassi nation of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Ro mero. Former U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador Robert White has accused Roberto d'Aubuisson, Duarte's rightist opponent in last month's elections, of masterminding that murder, although the charge has never been proved. "Nobody is going to be above the law in this government," Duarte told TIME. "If Roberto d'Aubuisson...
...result of this Great Rebellion the Overseers and Corporation agreed on a code of 153 regulations in 13 sections, dictating everything from vacations to the requirement that the President submit an annual report to the Overseers. The Corporation now consisted completely of outsiders, and the Faculty began lobbying again for representation, but this time the Overseers stood behind the board and the movement was unsuccessful. This activity reflects the birth of the modern Harvard. The Medical, Law and Divinity Schools had been founded and the governance was almost as it remains today...
...later one remembers only one-third of what one has learned. There is a small but significant exception to this easy generalization about how little one remembers. It is called over-learning, and it takes place when you use the same information repeatedly: e.g., your phone number, a zip code, your Harvard ID, your name, etc. Even at times of stress this information is available...
Feinstein has established a dress code for her senior staff that includes neckties for men and dresses or skirts for women; the police and fire chiefs must be in full uniform when they come to her office. The mayor asks a lot of her staff in other ways. Recalls former Press Secretary Mel Wax: "If a story the least bit critical of her appeared in the newspaper, she'd say, 'You should have done this, or you should have done that.' There's a lot of the schoolteacher about her. She's difficult...
...Marcos opponents disagreed. While conceding that they had little hope against the money and machinery of the well-oiled K.B.L., they believed that by winning even a few seats they could begin to challenge Marcos' system from within. Easier said than done. Though Marcos reluctantly liberalized the election code in March, the President's men artfully contrived to cut away at many of his concessions...