Word: coded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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FIRST TEAM: F. Duanne Moeser, Cornell soph.; F. Bob Logan, Yale, soph.; F. Geoff Dervin, Cornell, sen.; D. Ken Code, Harvard, sen.; D. Peter Sawkins, Yale, jun.; G. Grant Blair, Harvard, soph...
...recently; a package arrived last month at their Chicago headquarters with cut-up animal parts, two dead fish, and a note reading, "Death for you and yours." Howard says that McLaughlin's assailants knew who he was: "The message those attackers gave him was 'You broke the code, and nobody is going to get away with that.' " A police officer in Georgia who is familiar with the case, explaining why some facts were not included in the public report of the incident, confirmed that McLaughlin is considered in danger and that "maybe someone...
Building inspectors soon arrived in droves, finding code violations on almost every shelf. Choi, no chump, halted his renovation plans, complied with each building ordinance and applied to the city landmarks preservation commission for permission to keep his new awning. Then the underdog syndrome took over. While Choi started getting fan letters, Bernstein got 60 obscene phone calls. A writer from Gourmet magazine called her a snob. Customers like a little cause célèbre with then-caviar. Maybe it wasn't such a bad idea after...
...finance these ambitious programs, Mondale advocates tax reform and cutting back in defense spending. Mondale wants to reduce the budget deficit through a combined program of: eliminating weapons systems like the MX missile and the B-1; across-the-board hospital cost containment; repealing tax code indexation; and capping the third year of Reagan's tax cut for the rich...
That may be true. But whatever the drawbacks, bankruptcies are multiplying. In fiscal 1980, 5,765 firms filed for bankruptcy. By 1983 that figure had ballooned to 17,608. The causes: the recession and its aftermath, and a 1978 overhaul of the Bankruptcy Code that permits troubled, but not insolvent, firms to declare bankruptcy. The 1978 change has made bankruptcy both a shield and a sword. Robert Miller, executive vice president of Congress Financial Corp., a commercial lending institution, supports the Bildisco decision but finds the growth of bankruptcies disturbing. Says he: "Any time a company makes a bad business...