Word: coded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...over the issue of access to the President--who has it, how much did they have to pay to get it, what did they get in return--it turns out that the most valuable scrap of information to have is a nine-digit number. That number is a ZIP code, one that tells the White House post office to pluck that letter from the 15,000 addressed to Bill Clinton every day and slip it directly under the President's door. The people who know the code are Clinton's oldest friends and earliest allies. Few of them followed...
...idea of a special ZIP code was George Bush's, but Clinton adopted it shortly after he was elected and soon added a fax number as well. Clinton has given it out to strangers when he wants to hear their stories in full. But most often it's a way for people like Staley to bypass regular channels, which once left her in tears after she'd poured quarter after quarter into a phone at Washington's National Airport. From the day she was handed the magic number, Staley has been faxing a stream of jokes, gossip and encouragement. "Hello...
...mail-in urine sample is bound to spark a storm of controversy. Customers need only place a urine sample in a plastic package included with the kit, mail it in to a government-certified laboratory, and, after one to three days, dial a 1-800 number with their identification code to learn the results. While Brown, a Maryland-based clinical psychologist experienced in substance abuse treatment, insists that the code will protect customers' anonymity, critics charge that confidentiality after the fact isn?t the main issue. Privacy is the issue, when parents and schools confront children with demands for urine...
First, then, the tax code should be reinterpreted--and the President should urge Congress to do so. Might he? "I'm not a fan of the Big Bang school of policymaking," says Raines, whose view is shared by Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin. "I'm for economic self-interest working its will." There's nothing wrong with that, especially in a free-market system. But sometimes self-interest needs a push...
...Apple devotees last week finally got what they'd been waiting for: assurances that despite rumors to the contrary, the next generation of Macintosh computers will run most of the old software. The bad news is that it will be at least a year before the new system, code-named Rhapsody, is ready for public release...