Word: coded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Director of Dining Services Michael P. Berry said the regulation is part of the dining services' employee dress code...
...they're saying so little of value, of course. They can't quite figure the political benefits of saying more. "There's lots of talk about how this helps Republicans," says a Dole campaign aide. "Some say it'll work for us by osmosis. Some are talking about finding code words and code events, like having Ron Goldman's father speak for the victims of violence at the G.O.P. convention." But the Dole adviser, who worked for George Bush in 1992, remembers how wrong they were back then. "We thought Rodney King would re-elect Bush," he says. "The King...
...clean up the L.A.P.D.--the job he was expressly hired to do after Rodney King. It's Clinton, not the Attorney General, who should promise a thorough investigation of Mark Fuhrman and his boasts of police mistreatment of blacks. It is the President who should swipe at the "code of silence" too many cops embrace when their colleagues are guilty of excess. Above all, it is Clinton who needs to say what we all know--that minority Americans are too often the victims of police misconduct and that the misuse of public power diminishes everyone, not only those against whom...
...Persuasion" encounters the inevitable fate of a movie based on an Austen novel: It is louder, more simplistic and garish than the original. When Anne and Wentworth kiss on the street in Bath, the whole social code which underlies Austen's world is simply tossed aside in the name of a satisfying climax. But although the film's tone is not perfect, it is close. And the acting, cinematography, even music, are as good as could be hoped for. Go see "Persuasion," but don't forget to stop at the bookstore on the way home...
With this trend, Tierney said, the tax code began to grow without reciprocating to the constituents in terms of new or micro-managed social programs...