Word: coded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More than two years after it began, the Justice Department's investigation into the Pentagon bribery scandal, code-named Ill Wind, may finally be poised to blow in some major indictments. Charles Gardner, a former top executive of Unisys Corp., pleaded guilty last week to bribing former Assistant Secretary of the Navy Melvyn Paisley in return for Paisley's help in winning at least $194 million in contracts on the Aegis electronic-warfare system...
...decision by Eastern pilots to honor the picket lines prompted the airline to file last week for protection from creditors under Chapter 11 of the federal bankruptcy code. Officials have said it is losing about $4 million...
...directors and scriptwriters -- both William Faulkner and F. Scott Fitzgerald were employed in Hollywood that year -- were severely restricted, moreover, by Hollywood's rigid code of self-censorship. Long kisses were forbidden, adultery always had to be severely punished, and double beds were for sinners in New York City. In Hollywood movies, even happily married couples, like Nick and Nora Charles in The Thin Man series, slept in widely separated twin beds, clad top to bottom in pajamas or nightgown. Such now innocuous four-letter words as hell and damn were proscribed, and Gone With the Wind titillated and sometimes...
...School students really do eat, sleep and breathe legal studies. The student-run Law School Drama Society's letterhead stationary contains the following footnote: "The Harvard Law School Drama Society is a non-profit organization under 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Service Code. All contributions may be deducted as provided in section 170 of the Code...
...year salary with lavish "gifts" from outside contractors. His critics did not call him "MacDollar" for nothing. Testifying under immunity before the Senate committee, MacDonald's son Peter Jr. said that when his father needed cash, he would call a benefactor and ask for "golf balls," MacDonald Sr.'s code word for $1,000 cash payments. MacDonald Jr. would then collect the bribe...