Word: coded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...specter is haunting China -- the specter of capitalism. But the octogenarian leaders in Beijing don't come right out and say that. They call their bugaboo "peaceful evolution," an innocuous-sounding code phrase for what they think is an onslaught led by the U.S. to overturn their socialist system...
Omerta. The code of silence for a sacred brotherhood. Well, fuhgedaboudit. Every time you turn around lately, a member of the Mafia is turning around: testifying at a trial, wearing a bug, writing a book. Whatever life omerta had left in its blood-drained body ebbed away last week with the stunning disclosure that Salvatore (Sammy Bull) Gravano, the most trusted adviser to reputed Gambino boss John Gotti, has become the Federal Government's latest protected flipster. If juries find him believable, Gravano could obliterate the entire hierarchy of the Gambinos, New York City's largest crime family with more...
...Roman Catholic parishes organized social clubs for children who felt unwelcome at white high school dances. Despite drive-by shootings and drug trafficking, the gangs were tolerated as a "community" issue for half a century. Explains former teen gangster Ysmael Pereira, 48, who is now a gang counselor: "The code was always to keep it quiet...
Hann was permanently expelled last year for violating Brown's hate speech code, which prohibited "demeaning actions" directed against "a group or class of persons" based on their "race, religion, or sexual orientation." Hann's shouted racist and anti-semitic epithets outside a dorm. In this case, holding and expressing such opinions were considered actions and wrongly disciplined as such. In the cases of Jeffries and the Yale student, their illegal actions are being treated as nothing more than expressions of opinions. The reasoning in both cases is flawed...
...believe that some offenses in government are not defined in the United States code, then courts are not the only answer," he said...