Word: code
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Once again, as has happened so often in this disappointing campaign, a complex issue was being oversimplified. "Quota" was being used as a code word implying vast sins against democratic ideals, an arbitrary advancement of the have-nots at the expense of those who have worked for their place in society. McGovern declared flatly that he too was against quotas: "I reject the quota system as detrimental to American society. It is both necessary and possible to open the doors that have long been shut to minority-group members without violating the basic principles of non-discrimination and without abandoning...
...grain company can be better than its information. Banks of ever-chattering telex machines pump a daily flood of intelligence, some in intricate code, into Cargill's headquarters: a competitor's wheat bid in Latin America, weather conditions in Australia, political jockeying in the Middle East, rumored tax increases in Japan. In the chateau's former living room, a dozen or so executives scan an electronic quote board which tells them the price of soybeans in Chicago, wheat in Kansas City, rapeseed in Thunder Bay and oats in Winnipeg. On the basis of that information, Cargill executives...
...suggested that the CIA might have used expert forgers as a means of punishing the corrupt minister, who was scarcely in a position to complain. All a forger would need in such a case would be an authentic check and a signature with which to practice, or the cipher code of a numbered account. Once that is provided, Swiss banks cash checks for almost any amount with few questions asked. As one banker put it last week...
Stanislav Andreski is no believer in what he calls "the principle that dog does not eat dog," the unwritten code that keeps members of the same profession from attacking each other in public even if attack is justified. A professor of sociology at England's Reading University, Andreski has just written a new book that is certain to enrage his colleagues. In Social Sciences as Sorcery (Andre Deutsch; London; ?2.95), he accuses the world's rapidly increasing population of social scientists of writing more and more about less and less. Their work, he says, is boring, misleading, pseudoscientific...
...half as much. Is that fair? To Richard Nixon's economists, the lower tax on the stock profit is both a just reward for capitalist risk taking and a necessary stimulant to investment. To George McGovern's followers, the preference is the biggest "loophole" in the tax code. Says McGovern: "Money made by money should be taxed at the same rate as money made by men. Tax justice demands equal treatment for Americans who earn their living with a shovel or a slide rule and Americans who live on stock market and property gains...