Word: coded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pennsylvania State University, sports-science researcher John Shea has developed the "Leaper Beeper" for divers. The system uses sensors connected to a laptop computer to measure elements of an athlete's dive; during practice, a beeping noise code tells the diver in the air how high he has jumped and how far down he pushed the diving board. "We want to give the diver immediate and precise information about the dive so a change can be made for the next attempt," says Shea...
Thanks to effective federal and state laws, the U.S. has made strides against organized crime, convicting 24 Mafia bosses and dozens of lesser mobsters since 1981. The FBI has made extensive use of methods normally barred by Italy's Napoleonic legal code: electronic surveillance, undercover agents, use of informants, reduced sentences for cooperative witnesses. Nor did Italy have the all-important Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) laws, under which many American mobsters have been jailed, or a witness- protection program to encourage insider testimony...
...senior editor of the New Republic, says the Democrats are wasting their time. As the U.S. enters a world where only the highly skilled and well educated will make a decent living, the gap between rich and poor is going to keep growing. No fiddling with the tax code, retreat to protectionism, or job training for jobs that aren't there is going to stop it. Income equality, or even anything close to it, is a hopeless cause...
Despite the strictures, it was not until the cold war that amateurism became hotly debated, largely because of the biggest circumvention of the code. Soviet bloc nations, aiming to demonstrate communism's superiority, poured resources into state-run training programs and put athletes on state payrolls, calling them teachers, soldiers or commissars while paying them to play full time...
...What do you hear when Dan Quayle talks about family values? Is that code for something...