Word: coded
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...garnish wages or seize bank accounts. Another important reform: changing budgeting procedures. Congress currently funds the IRS on a yearly basis, making long-term planning difficult. The Administration would like to make IRS budgets cover a longer time period. Summers said the administration "will work to simplify the tax code" but did not provide details. Details, of course are what Republicans are only too happy to provide. According to Dick Armey, Americans spend 5.4 billion hours a year complying with the tax code, more than is spent building every car, truck and van in the U.S. Rather than upgrade...
...figure out if she had grounds to appoint an independent counsel. The fact that everyone from editorial-page editors to Trent Lott to Common Cause reformers was hollering for one meant little to her. Reno's critics were reading the independent-counsel statute; she was reading the criminal code. And she saw a big, fat exception to the law making it a crime to raise money on federal property. The loophole opened in 1979, when Congress inadvertently tightened the definition of "contribution" from money donated for "any political purpose" to the much narrower one of money donated "for the purpose...
...ludicrous. Given his position, they allege, the call itself is a form of shakedown. When a Vice President phones potential donors, the White House operator comes on the line and says, "Hold for the Vice President," or a steely-toned military aide barks, "Hold for Sawhorse," using Gore's code name. It's not as if they have much choice...
Some provisions of the safety code include required screening for volunteers who will work with children, guidelines on how volunteers can protect themselves while working in potentially dangerous environments and procedures for medical emergencies...
Following the JonBenet Ramsey murder, Ted Cohen, editor of the International Directory of Pageants, the bible of pageant publications, circulated a letter to beauty-pageant officials stating that he would be drafting a proposed code of ethics for the industry. He might not be the best man for the job. Metro Dade police have told TIME that they have received at least 50 complaints alleging that Cohen, a former Florida state representative, made improper sexual advances to minors dating back to 1972. In 1992, after being charged with one count of sexual battery, one count of false imprisonment...