Word: coded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...size and pedestrian stride, makes intuitive sense. Indeed, old sections of cities embody all sorts of folk and classical principles concerning residential density and building size and materials and zoning. In the very arrangements of alleys and building setbacks is a time-tested plan, a kind of urban genetic code...
...center stage is Prime Minister Herbert Blaize, 69, a lawyer who was elected in 1984. Blaize has been criticized for his remote, autocratic style. Last year his administration abolished a labyrinthine tax code in favor of a 20% value-added tax. Grenadians bemoaned the levy in a calypso song and even dubbed a local virus the VAT flu. Blaize has begun, amid yelps of protest, to reduce the flaccid civil service, which totals 7,800 employees in a population...
...title of Hugh Whitemore's elegant and poignant biographical play contains at least four layers of meaning. Taken together, they explain what intrigued Whitemore in the life of Alan Turing, an obscure if influential British mathematician. The most obvious reference is to Turing's cracking the Nazi Enigma code, credited by Winston Churchill as a key intelligence feat of World War II. Confronted with an enemy that could change its code in a trice, almost infinitely and randomly, via a complex encrypting machine, Turing outwitted the device by building a sort of early computer. A second allusion...
...Brigham Young University, where students must sign an honor code which prohibits pre-marital sex, administrators are in the process of forming a policy which will stress education and empathy, says Bruce H. Willey, director of BYU's Health Service...
...disciplinary system--the council was captured by the administration. Rather than standing firm as the students' voice, the council leaders submitted to the deans and accepted window dressings in place of actual reforms. The council members didn't push to give students the minimal protection of a written code of rules...