Word: coded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...letter also demands that the universities allow students to participate in the implementation of a labor code and calls on the schools to study the issue of paying a living wage to factory workers...
...wake of sit-ins at other colleges and increased anger at the lack of progress in negotiations with the University, members of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) sent a letter to University President Neil L. Rudenstine last Thursday demanding that the school adopt an anti-sweat-shop code of conduct...
...letter, which was sent to the presidents of all the Ivy League schools, asks the schools to revise their labor code so that manufacturers are required to disclose the location of their factories and non-governmental organizations inspect work conditions...
...option favored by most state attorneys general would require Microsoft to divulge its Windows source code--its most valuable piece of intellectual property--to other tech firms. This would allow Microsoft's rivals to develop their own versions of the world's dominant computer operating system. The government could auction off the license to the highest bidders, or Judge Jackson could find Microsoft guilty of "copyright abuse"--giving just about anyone access to adapt and sell Windows...
Decades of police abuse have completely destroyed inner-city residents' confidence in the criminal-justice system, argues Elijah Anderson, a social scientist at the University of Pennsylvania, in his forthcoming book, Code of the Streets: Decency, Violence and the Moral Life of the Inner City. The result is an every-man-a-vigilante mentality that makes violence inevitable. "Even decent people in inner-city neighborhoods are so distrustful of the police that they feel they have no choice but to take matters of personal defense into their own hands," says Anderson. "Instead of relying on the police to protect them...