Word: coded
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Town Manager Kenneth Knight determined that the municipal code prohibited only the display of genitalia or the committing of sexual acts in public. Because breasts are not technically genitalia, and mowing the lawn is not technically a sexual act, Thompson's pleas for justice were rebuffed (no pun intended...
...defines good governments as those whose people tend to trust their fellow citizens and whose laws are not derived from the religiously inspired French Napoleonic Code...
...indignantly to the government's "personal attacks on a visionary and innovator." John Warden, delivering Microsoft's opening statement, contended that Gates and his company had done nothing but engage in the hard-driving competition that is the essence of the free market. "The antitrust laws are not a code of civility in business," Warden told the court. He argued that Justice is trying to fix a software market that isn't broken. Microsoft is not a monopoly because there are few "barriers to entry" stopping would-be competitors from jumping in, Warden maintained. "There are no factories to build...
Still, a color code might be expected in a subdivision but would be unusual for a whole city, especially one in which the median household income is fairly low, around $27,000. The mayor's plans already have emotions running high. The owner of a yellow house hired a lawyer after the city came knocking. A resident with a soft spot for hot pink (her lipstick and house matched perfectly) threatened a reporter with bodily harm when the topic of her color preferences was broached...
...little more digging to find them. Wolfe does, of course, but among all the animal appetites that are slaked or comically thwarted during the novel there appears one new to Wolfe's fiction. For all their affluence, or their pained lack of same, his chief characters hunger for a code of conduct or a framework of beliefs that will make sense of their lives right now, a blink before the millennium. At its heart, A Man in Full is a cliff-hanging morality tale...