Word: coded
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Street person Richard Kreimer won national attention -- and a potful of cash -- when he sued the public library in Morristown, N.J., over a patron code of conduct that banned homeless people with poor personal hygiene. But the self- styled "homeless Ralph Nader" found himself barred from the building once again last week when a federal appeals court in Philadelphia overturned his victory and upheld the right of public libraries to expel vagrants in certain circumstances. A lower court had said the rules were an infringement of Kreimer's First Amendment rights, but the three-judge appeals panel disagreed. Although...
...thought a lot about it, and what I thought was this: that all these little tax proposals that I've watched are empty and meaningless. They don't add up to anything. It's just a game of churning the tax code, and I think it feeds the corruption. And my spirit of reform fits into the idea of simplifying the tax code and taking the politics out of it. And I believe economists recognize the efficiency, the incentive for saving and investment, that this tax proposal...
...according to the Recording Industry Association of America. Until last year, the effect of that purchasing power was disguised by the sketchy oral reports drawn from record stores canvassed for the Billboard pop charts. But last year the charts began relying on SoundScan, a firm that compiles computerized bar-code information from cash registers. On the May 25 pop chart, the first based on the SoundScan data, 15 more country albums showed up in the Top 200. In 1984 the country category showed only eight gold (500,000 sales), four platinum (1 million sales) and seven multiplatinum (multimillion sales) albums...
...President George Bush was amazed by the bar-code scanners he saw last month at the National Grocers Association convention in Orlando, he would be truly astounded by some of the technology found in state-of-the-art supermarkets like the Food Emporium. At Vons, a 283-store chain based in Arcadia, Calif., "talking" aisles are equipped with computerized voices that explain products to shoppers. At St. Louis-based Schnuck Markets, electronic "price tags" have replaced paper shelf labels. These new digital labels are linked to a central computer that changes shelf prices for 2,000 to 4,000 items...
...qualified presidential candidates plus Barbara Bush have genuine Secret Service code names. And here they are: those still in the running as well as the dropouts, the predators, the carnivores, the endangered and the extinct. For those who didn't qualify for a code name, Grapevine has provided one. Match them up. And don't forget to vote...