Word: coded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Department of Athletics refused to release any information about the University's code of conduct for Harvard coaches...
When financial record-keeping at some of Harvard's student organizations was shaky, the Administration organized a seminar for all student treasurers to enhance the quality of finances in the organizations. At other campuses, administrators rely on an Honor Code instead of proctors at exams. Above all, college students are assumed to have integrity, and failure to adhere to a certain standard of integrity results in serious penalties. Surely those we trust (at least a little) to run this country can be asked to adhere to a standard of integrity, as well. Otherwise, it seems superficial to expect integrity...
Leslie Gabor's mother trusted a personal code too. She started sending money to Swiss banks from Bercel, Hungary, in 1940, noting the account numbers and bank names on the bottom of a dining-room chest and underneath a kitchen cabinet. Transferring funds three times a year, she had amassed about $100,000 by 1943. In 1944 Gabor's mother, brother and sister were transported to Auschwitz. Gabor and his father escaped, but when they reached the family house, everything was gone. "All the furniture had been removed by the Germans. We no longer had the names and numbers...
...Account, that alluded to Allen Dulles' wartime role as America's top spy in neutral Switzerland. The hints of unsavory Swiss behavior enticed the ordained rabbi and former political science professor from New York City into reading a biography of Dulles, which made reference to a U.S. intelligence operation code-named Project Safehaven. Its mission: to track down Nazi gold and loot being smuggled out of the Third Reich...
...Total Recall, originally made by another studio. Miramax, which traditionally had more pickups than homegrown product, is making more of its own films. The company is plunging into musicals, with movies of Chicago (possibly starring Madonna and Goldie Hawn) and Rent. Weinstein has vaguer plans for a monthly magazine, code-named Max, and for TV. "I don't think we need to do sitcoms," he says, "but rather more innovative stuff balanced with commercial properties...