Word: code
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus becalmed, the Congress last week: ¶ Received, from a House civil service subcommittee, a "code of ethics" for federal employees, which Florida's Democratic Representative Charles E. Bennett described as approving gifts like "a sack of potatoes," but not "star sapphires and diamonds...
...earlier government had forced out Standard Oil Co. of N.J. On the face of it, these moves made the chance of new foreign oil investment in Bolivia look dim indeed. Nonetheless, Paz Estenssoro made a hard-boiled decision that Bolivia needed foreign capital, and in 1955 enacted a liberal code for oil operators from abroad. Last week Pittsburgh's Gulf Oil Corp., first big operator to move in, signed a 40-year agreement to search for and produce petroleum in Bolivia...
...them. They parked the damned things, didn't they?" Mechanization met vain but fierce resistance on the Square, however, as enraged townsmen, swearing the machines were part of a University plot, barracaded themselves inside the crumbling walls of old Fort Yuma. The Public Works Department ("Golden Arm" Sullivan's code name for the 4th Sappers Unmounted Light) attempted to erect scaling ladders (see foreground) but pikemen within kept the ladders without. In addition to the sidewalk squad, the City Council finally declared a state of emergency and seized the MTA. Thus Transit Authority equipment led the attack on Massachusetts...
...Appalled" by obsolete building code requirements, Anderson cited one in Massachusetts requiring one washroom to every 10 or 11 pupils, whereas sanitation officials deem one for every 30 more than adequate...
...understand our trustees might have to ask for certain modifications in the building code for this area before construction can start," he said...