Word: coded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...truck and teaches chess at the kitchen table. Others crowd around Steve ("the Preacher") Ellerson, who gives haircuts and lectures on good grades. Andre Raiford, built like an oaken door, drills the children on multiplication tables. Each fireman imparts lessons in some area and helps enforce a strict behavior code. Swearing and drug dealing are prohibited. Faces must be clean, hair combed, hands washed. "All these kids know is what they see around the projects," says Lewis. "We show them that you can be successful and that you don't have to do it by selling drugs or playing basketball...
...washing away the stores' image from that of the jeans, the once stodgy retailers have attracted the most discriminating jeans buyers: teens. In a recent poll of favored brands of jeans, conducted by Teenage Research Unlimited, Arizona ranked second. "The very retailers we sell to have cracked the code on how to create and sell their own brand," acknowledges Levi's Shank...
...They began to make silly assumptions about my mother and I simply because of our zip code [90210]," he says. "She started to warn my mom that my roommate was a simple boy from Tennessee and blah blah and that pissed my mother...
...They can't blame the IRS for that. It was Congress, after all, that passed the Byzantine 10,000-page code currently in place. And filling many of those pages are the breaks, loopholes and other gifts that lawmakers have been publicly decrying ? and privately inserting ? since the days of the tithe...
...mood may be right ? but to really scale the Hill, the burn-the-code movement still needs a leader. And Steve Forbes just ain't gonna...