Word: code
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...force of Nixonian reform, if it has any, is peculiarly directed against those elements in society which are already threatened. The tenor of the suggested changes in the tax code and of the proposed budget has demonstrated that the end has come to Federal favor for education. The end of tax loopholes and excesses of Federal aid is an end to be questioned rather than welcomed, if it can come only at the price of ending necessary Federal aid and chilling private contributions to notoriously unprofitable institutions like universities...
...commercial law, Sutherland helped draft the Uniform Commericial Code, a body of laws which established common trade practices among states. In 1962, he was chairman of a special committee to revise the so-called "blue laws," of Massachusetts...
Paul L. Siegler, president of the Massachusetts Libertarian Party and a student at the Harvard Business School, said that although strict laws are thought to strengthen society, "to impose a moral code by force is symptomatic of a weak society." He said the proper course for government was to "stop making restrictive laws and to resort to education in the marketplace of ideas...
Gangsterism is not new to Japan (it actually dates back to the 16th century when unemployed samurai turned to banditry, organizing into small gangs in the process). But the mob's bravado is a novelty. Until fairly recently, in fact, gangsters were obliged by a chivalric code to give to the poor and avoid harming innocent people. Like members of the Mafia, they took a blood oath that was not broken with impunity. For failing to live up to the yakuza code, an offender had to show penitence by cutting off his little finger and presenting...
Despite the patriarchal influence of Chinese Confucianism, the strongly Confucianist legal code of 19th Century Nguyen dynasty had to respect the economic role of Vietnamese women, she added. For example, the code forbade a husband from divorcing his wife if she had already made him rich through her labor...