Word: code
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...perhaps unknown even to the manufacturer, drags the plane out of the air. The pilot's best bet is to make an emergency landing on the broad lake. Bailing out alive from a modern jet plane is difficult; it is also part of the test pilot's code to bring the aircraft back if it is humanly possible...
When the network separated from the CRIMSON in 1946, it changed its name from WHCN--the Crimson Network--to the present code signifying the Harvard Network. Now that the station must make another change, network members must invent another combination...
...N.C.A.A. passed a code which the University of Kentucky adopted, stating that a member of the N.C.A.A. was not permitted to offer any prospective athlete anything except tuition when awarded on athletic ability. The University of Kentucky has conformed to this code, and I am afraid your article gives the impression that we now offer prospective athletes this same scholarship that our boys on the varsity are receiving...
Reason for suspension was that Colombia had just about succeeded in pricing itself out of the oil business. While Venezuela's tough but sense-making petroleum code fostered a billion-dollar industry, Colombia's confusing, ultra-nationalist oil laws had crippled efforts to develop resources. It often took ten years to get an exploration concession through Colombian courts. After that, the million dollars spent on drilling a new well would be subject to tax whether oil was found or not. Extra-legal riders of one sort or another jacked royalties as high as 25%; the total government take...
...Morgan won this certificate, one of five given out since the end of the war, for his work as chairman of the legal committee that drafted a uniform code of military justice...