Word: coded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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About 75 percent of Harvard Business School students approved the adoption of the School's first-ever honor code earlier this month...
...article last fall in The New Republic, Henry Louis Gates Jr. indicated how such censorship in fact can have unexpected consequences; for example, during the time that a hate speech code was in force at the University of Michigan every student charged under the code was Black; regulation did not create a "safe harbor...
Senator Bob Packwood, the Oregon Republican, has long opposed limits on the tax subsidy but now says, "My mind is open." The rising cost of health care, he says, makes him wonder "whether we have encouraged, because of the tax code, too much health coverage . . . Cadillac coverage when we ought to be aiming for Chevrolet coverage." Senator Tom Daschle, the South Dakota Democrat, acknowledged that "it's safe to say that we won't allow a sky's-the-limit tax exclusion." And a top adviser to President Clinton predicted "a cap on the tax subsidy for upper-income people...
...Carrier mentions lawsuits filed against the company as an indicator of some new-found public distrust of Lennar, she conveniently leaves out the fact that prosecutors who investigated Lennar exonerated the company of all criminal wrongdoing. In fact, investigators concluded that Lennar's homes were all built up to code, and that most of the weaknesses exposed by Andrew were the result of practices sanctioned by the South Florida Building Code and Dade County...
...electronic fare cards were double-charging them for rides or failing to let them through the automated turnstiles. A spokesman for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority blamed the confusion on riders who had not yet learned to use the cards properly and were running them twice through the bar-code reader at the turnstile...