Word: coded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Revenue Service. It cuts to images from recent Senate hearings featuring a priest as one of the agency's innocent victims and IRS whistle blowers testifying from behind screens to hide their identity. Then the voice announces that while Republicans want to overhaul the IRS and scrap the tax code, President Clinton and his Treasury Secretary, Robert Rubin, are defending the status quo. "If you like the IRS," Luntz's fantasy ad continues, "vote Democratic. If you want to send a message, vote Republican...
...with the Administration to last as long as possible. For the past two weeks, G.O.P. majority leader Dick Armey of Texas and Representative Billy Tauzin of Louisiana have been debating tax-reform alternatives in front of packed auditoriums across the country on what they are calling the "Scrap the Code Tour." They both hope to turn the public's visceral anger at the IRS into a willingness to replace the existing, complex tax code with something simpler. In Armey's case it's a single flat tax on income; in Tauzin's, an across-the-board national sales...
...storm, which literally freezes the world around the Hoods and the Carvers, serves as a kind of natural catalyst which brings all of their disappointments and repressed feelings to the surface, or at least forces them to break through their stiff behavioral code and emote. The Ice Storm, based on Rick Moody's 1994 novel, is a complex and, almost inevitably, flawed work of art, but one can't help being affected by nearly everything that transpires...
...letters that make up the movie title--A, T, C and, more rarely, G--followed by the rest of the name. It's then that the significance of those four letters finally dawns upon you: Adenine, Thymine, Cytosine, and Guanine, the four bases that make up our genetic code. A zoom-out to a view of Ethan Hawke industriously scrubbing his naked body provides the clue to the mystery of the falling matter. It's body matter--hair and dead skin cells...
Riley said that under Code 22c of Section 63 of the Massachusetts Commonwealth Statute Law, HUPD officers have the same powers as all other police officers...