Word: coded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Incidentally, I might say that the leadership of the legislature of our majority party has often consulted with the opposition. We are now consulting with them on the passage of a new election code. It is not true that I dictate what should be done. There is a dialogue. Now you say that the situation is rigged up in my favor. Well, probably if they spend more time organizing in the provinces instead of quarreling here in Manila, then they can improve the situation...
...airlines, however, share one key asset: a two-letter code that identifies each airline on flight-reservation computer terminals. Regional lines use the code that identifies their big brothers. For example, Air Midwest's flight from Wichita to Kansas City is labeled EA, rather than AM, on travel agents' computer screens. That is important because the major carriers' codes get priority display in reservation systems and are therefore booked first...
Speaking in Italian through a translator, Buscetta began his testimony by describing the Mafia's structure and bylaws. Both in Sicily, where it began, and in the U.S., the criminal organization at one time imposed a strict, almost old-fashioned, moral code. Starting as a low-ranking "soldier," Buscetta said, "I was to be silent, not to look at other men's wives or women, not to steal." All "men of honor," as members called themselves, pledged never to lie to one another. Buscetta was suspended from Mafia activities for six months in 1952 for breaking the code. "I betrayed...
...House Ways and Means Committee, which is drafting a sweeping revision of the tax code, voted 18-17 to limit tax-free borrowing by universities, hospitals and other non-profit institutions to a maximum of $150 million outstanding at any time...
Requiring undergraduates to sign an additional contract when they enroll--an honor code--would apparently only serve to inform students that at Harvard you are not only a scholar, but a policeman...