Word: coded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...balance over 60 days overdue resulted in the termination of the personal access code a student uses to make long distance calls. For delinquent students who pay for telephone lines, both the code and the line were disconnected...
...Francis Jenkins demonstrated his "long-distance cinema" by transmitting "still" pictures over radio waves from Washington to Philadelphia. U.S. Navy astronomer Captain Thomas Jefferson Jackson See denounced Albert Einstein as a fraud. Birth control was a subject of passionate debate, and in fact was forbidden under the U.S. penal code ("Every obscene, lewd or lascivious book . . . designed for preventing conception or producing abortion . . . is hereby declared to be non-mailable matter"). As this last item suggests, some attitudes do change. What has not changed in 70 years, however, is our determination to ensure that TIME still holds together, makes sense...
This is not your father's White House. If anything, it's your daughter's. Gone is the strict Bush dress code that required skirts for women and forbade beards for men. In its place are not just the usual gray suits but also women in pants, tieless men in sweaters and the occasional diamond ear stud. Instead of the highly compartmentalized Bush system, in which no one knew what others were doing, the Clintonites prefer giant, free-for-all meetings and speak the same hard-nosed patois of politics and policy. "This place is completely different," said a Bush...
Against that threat, the relevant intelligence agencies mobilized quickly. The news from New York sent the FBI and other federal agencies to Code Red, their highest state of readiness. The FBI activated its Joint Terrorist Task Force, and the CIA turned up the heat at its Counterterrorist Center in Langley, Virginia, a conglomerate of psychiatrists, explosives experts and hostage negotiators. Meanwhile, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the agency responsible for investigating the loss and theft of explosives, mobilized its 13-member National Response Team held on 24-hour call in the New York area. They were joined...
...were in genuine pain. U.S. Attorney Jay Stephens is expected to indict Rostenkowski this spring or summer on charges of illegally converting House Post Office money to personal use. If that happens, his likely successor, Sam Gibbons of Florida, has neither the stature nor the knowledge of the tax code that will be needed to sell the Clinton plan to Congress. And since Clinton opened the door to new "incentives" and special tax breaks, without Rostenkowski's discipline the bill that eventually emerges from the committee is bound to be even more byzantine than the one Clinton proposed...