Word: coded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prosecution relied heavily on 14 Mafia members who broke the code of silence, known as omerta, to describe the organization's workings. The star witness was Tommaso Buscetta, 59, a mobster who once ran some Mafia operations in the U.S. and South America and who also testified in the "Pizza Connection" trial in New York City, which led to the conviction of 17 drug traffickers. Buscetta described to the jury the Mafia's pyramidal structure, capped by a twelve-member cupola, or commission, that ruled on all major gangland murders. There were plenty of those. The prosecution charged that between...
...such action, the FCC began moving against two California companies it believes are violating its regulations limiting the access of minors to dial-a-porn messages. Those rules, which many porn services ignore, seek to make it necessary for callers to use a credit card or a special access code. The targeted California companies could eventually face fines of up to $50,000 a day and criminal prosecution. Critics charge that antiregulatory zeal has hitherto led the FCC to take a laissez-faire approach to phone porn. "This signifies that the commission will enforce the rules it has adopted," says...
...time to turn over a new leaf. The deans conferred and debated, weighing the different strategies by which Harvard students could be reined in, while drinking strong martinis and getting stoned. "How 'bout mandatory breakfast? Yeah that's the ticket. How 'bout a dress code, tuxes for the guys, silk bikinis for the girls?" said one dean...
Total costs for renovation will be about $11 million. The YMCA will have to spend $3 million to bring the residence "up to code," the vice-president said. The developer will be obligated to renovate 60,000 square feet of YMCA property free of charge, as well as their own space...
...addition to the tax code, demographic changes have no doubt contributed to the savings drought. The baby-boom generation -- the 76 million Americans born between 1946 and 1964 -- is in its peak spending years right now. According to the so-called life-cycle theory of savings behavior, people tend to do their heaviest borrowing and spending from their mid-20s to mid-40s. Then, after their children are grown, they start saving for retirement. Many economists predict that when a huge number of baby boomers reach middle age in the 1990s, the level of U.S. saving will improve...