Word: coded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...language all his own. It's Indo-Midwestern, rooted in a place where there's no extra credit for extra words, where humor is often truth's only reliable vehicle. Dole's vernacular of nods, grunts, snickers and shrugs can be as baffling to outsiders as the Navajo code talkers were to the Japanese military. He rarely praised his staff members, even when he liked them; several left the leader's office frustrated and convinced he didn't, only to be surprised later when they got a call out of the Reagan or Bush White House from someone saying Dole...
This time, Duarte M. "Duke" Carvalho, the franchisee of the new store, exploited a loophole in the city code to open the new restaurant in the area recently vacated by the Left Bank Cafe...
...because of concerns that those who test positive need to receive adequate counseling about what to do. Users of the new tests, Home Access ($39.95) and Home Access Express ($49.95), must send a blood sample to a lab, then call a toll-free number with a private personal identification code to get the results. If the results are positive or inconclusive, a counselor gets on the line to refer people to a full-time counselor and discuss medical options. "The advantage of a home test is the sense of privacy which might encourage more people to get tested," says Gorman...
Communicating in code--Clinton was called the Governor of California, Yeltsin the Governor of Texas--the Americans sought Morris' help. They had earlier worked together to script Clinton's summit meeting with Yeltsin in mid-April. The main goal then was to have Clinton swallow hard and say nothing as Yeltsin lectured him about Russia's great-power prerogatives. "The idea was to have Yeltsin stand up to the West, just like the Communists insisted they would do if Zyuganov won," says a Clinton Administration official. "By having Yeltsin posture during that summit without Clinton's getting bent...
...move on Solondz's part, but within the context of the film the threat of rape becomes so unreal, so divorced from the reality of rape or even sex that it makes the audience experience the confusion of very early adolescence in which terms like these seem an unknowable code of adulthood rather than real entities to be grappled with...