Word: coded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...P.L.O. profoundly alters the political landscape of the Middle East in ways not yet clearly outlined but fresh with the potential for progress. The announcement sent a wave of approval through the West European and Arab communities, which have long urged the U.S. to end its increasingly futile code of silence. The move shocked Israel, which now stands alone in rejecting all contact with the P.L.O. With only a few weeks left in office, Ronald Reagan gave George Bush a huge Christmas present: the opportunity to make real progress in the Middle East without taking the heat for a fiercely...
...move is an important step in China's campaign to formalize the country's legal code and replace renzhi, the rule of men, with fazhi, the rule of law. Although the ancient Chinese developed a sophisticated civil service system, the prominence of law waxed and waned with the fortunes of China's Emperors. The Communists tried to install a Soviet-style system after the 1949 revolution, but the fledgling effort began to unravel during Chairman Mao's "anti-rightist" political campaign in the late 1950s. What little jurisprudence survived was virtually swept away during the tumultuous Cultural Revolution...
...money back if the student did not get in. For the consultant, it was a no-lose proposition: he did nothing, and if the student happened to get in, he kept the money. The I.E.C.A. tries to weed out con artists by requiring members to sign an ethics code. But that is unlikely to dissuade the unscrupulous...
There was, of course, an element of romantic sentimentalism in much of this, as Chandler well knew. It was no coincidence that he called his first detective "Mallory." Chandler identified all too closely with his "shop- soiled Galahad," struggling to maintain a code of honor in a Hollywood that had never heard of the Marquis of Queensberry rules. Chandler knew the sting of being typecast as a small-time operator ("The better you write a mystery," he complained, "the more clearly you demonstrate that the mystery is not really worth writing"). Yet what he knew most...
...loss, they had hoped, would finish him. But, as Jackson says, "no way I'm going away." So for many Democrats, both black and white, the Jackson factor is becoming the Jackson problem. "What does Jesse want?" 1988's continual refrain, has become "How do we treat him?" a code question for "How do we get rid of Jackson and still retain black support...