Word: coded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shopping is at least democratic; the sale of tickets to special Inaugural events is not. Democratic donors won the right to purchase the best seats at the parade, the balls and the gala based in part on how much they gave. Each invitation came with a special eight-digit code that enforced the carefully prearranged pecking order. Who got the richest invitations? Those donors who have, as spokesman David Seldin put it, "shown an ability to spend...
MOSCOW, Russia: New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, meet your equal. Responding to a traffic altercation three weeks ago in which diplomats from Russia and Belarus claim to have been battered by New York police, powerful Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov recently oversaw a special operation, code-named "Foreigner," in which city traffic police zoomed in on foreign-owned cars, levying fines and confiscating license plates. Roughly 1,000 cars were stopped by city traffic cops, known by their Russian acronym GAI (gai-EE), during the two-day operation, which ended Thursday. Famed throughout Moscow for their ability to disperse fines...
...persuaded Gates to become that university's most famous modern dropout in order to start a software company, which they initially dubbed Micro-Soft (after considering the name Allen & Gates Inc.), to write versions of BASIC for the first personal computers. It was an intense relationship: Gates the workaholic code writer and competitor, Allen the dreamy visionary...
...share a goal with the President of using the tax code to help pay for students' college costs," Fleischer says...
...there's any new money [for college aid], all indications are that it will come from changes in the tax code," says Nan F. Nixon, Harvard's lobbyist in Washington for tax and education issues...