Word: code
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Politics. He has overhauled Tunisia's law code, abolished polygamy, and pushed the secularization of the state, but he has not come effectively to grips with his little country's economic problems, which include 400,000 unemployed in a population of 3,800,000. His overriding concern is to get the Algerian problem settled while preserving Tunisian independence from France. "Basically and profoundly," he says, "we are with the West." He still hopes to see "our Algerian brothers" free and joined with Tunisia and Morocco in a North African federation backed by France...
...display in Philadelphia, she stopped the show. "Dirt for dirt's sake," cried District Attorney Victor H. "Blanc. Last week the D.A.'s office confiscated the film from two theaters and charged the owners with violating an anti-obscenity film provision in the state's criminal code...
...like, and if in a club situation we choose to be exclusive, this is our privilege." From that bit of casuistry--more often expressed as an innocent belief that "you've got a right to choose your friends and the guys you're going to eat with--the code of values can be relentlessly deduced which summarily condemns certain personality traits, ethnic groups, and even scholarship, intellectualism, and originality themselves...
Last week the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s 19-union Building and Construction Trades Department took what seemed a momentous step toward eliminating such cost-boosting practices. Announced at the A.F.L.-C.I.O. executive council meeting in Miami Beach was an anti-featherbedding code quietly drawn up over the past three years by the building-trades union and spokesmen for the National Constructors Association, whose members account for 90% of the U.S.'s heavy construction. The man behind the code: old (70) Bricklayer Richard James Gray, the B.C.T.D.'s unorthodox president, who shocked his fellow labor leaders at the A.F.L...
...main provisions the code calls...