Word: coded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tuskegee experiment has become a metaphor and code word for the mistreatment of black people in the medical profession, Thomas said...
This is not to say that I find myself incapable of distinguishing right from wrong or cannot identify any moral code worthy of my adherence. I have my own reasonably consistent system of values which govern my beliefs. In the ethical realm, I pretty much know what I should and shouldn't do. For the comfort of that certainty I have my parents to thank. For my more significant discomfort at the prospect of life's deeper choices, I cannot help but feel that, at least partially, I have Harvard to blame...
...decided to split the company up, whether along product lines or by creating several equally endowed "Baby Microsofts," the combined value of the resultant stock would probably end up higher than the original. Other scenarios aren't so rosy: Bill Gates could be forced to give away the source code of his core product, Windows. Or the government could simply weaken the company with a lot of regulations - sort of a permanent peacekeeping mission in Redmond. But even that might not be so bad: As the company has spent the past few years under federal scrutiny, the software market...
...Harvard has a code of conduct and if they're not in compliance, Harvard will tell them to improve their conduct or stop doing business with them," said PSLM member Aron Fischer '99-'00, adding that the University tends to prefer the first option...
...regular set-ups. You see, one of the strengths of surfing via cable is that you're online 24 hours a day and don't have to disconnect every time you want to order Chinese food. But that can also be a weakness, because your IP address (the ZIP code of the Internet) doesn't change. Dial-up users like me who are still crawling along at 56K get moved to a different IP address every time we log on. We may be slower, but we're harder to find...