Word: coded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bright spot for accountants is Washington's continuing effort to revamp the U.S. tax code. Says Arthur Bowman, editor of the Public Accounting Report: "Every time Congress simplifies things, everybody needs more help in figuring out their taxes." If tax reform passes, accountants may have something to cheer about in an otherwise gloomy situation...
Closer to our own time, Hitler and the Nazis had their own vision of a natural order. They set down in rigidly narrow terms a code which prescribed who would be considered "racially pure" and who were to be classified as "impure." As we all know, this led to the mass extermination of eastern European Jews, racial minorities, Jehovahs Witnesses and others who did not conform to the state's concept of justice. What is often forgotten, however, is that gays were similarly listed among the ranks of the "impure" and tens of thousands also perished in the gas chambers...
...test scheduled for this Tuesday is code-named Mighty Oak. If all goes as planned, a U.S. nuclear device will explode in a tunnel beneath the dry lake beds of Nevada, some 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas. On the scale of modern tests, it rates as a penny-ante blast, releasing a mere 20 kilotons of explosive power, equivalent to 20,000 tons of TNT. Such a test usually does nothing more than rattle the china in a few Nevada closets. But this time the shock waves could reverberate around the world...
...group had to write the names and addresses of the families to visit in code and memorized them in order to avoid being refused entry into the country, said Joy Sobeck '86. The group, divided into three pairs, visited about 30 families in all, she said...
McDavitt said that the Man Ray club willfully violated the building code by changing from a family-style restaurant into a nightclub without receiving permission from the board and by renovating a kitchen into a dance floor without permission...