Word: code
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...boarded the Spirit of '76 after sharing tea and sympathy with Emperor Hirohito in Alaska last month, President Nixon gave U.S. Ambassador to Tokyo Armin Meyer a laconic description of a large problem. When it comes to trouble between the U.S. and Japan, said the President, "The code word is 'textiles...
...code word was still the same last week when U.S. Ambassador-at-Large David Kennedy and Kakuei Tanaka, head of Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI), met in Tokyo to initial an agreement severely restricting Japanese textile sales to the U.S. Exports of synthetic garments and cloth will be permitted to rise only 5% and exports of woolens only 1% annually for the next three years. Even that limit may not be reached, because the pact also contains strict item-by-item regulation of 18 specific categories of products; it allows the Japanese almost no freedom...
...Humble stations in Ohio, and Enco stations elsewhere. But this was no way to build strong national-brand consciousness. In their search for a new name, Esso executives worked in cloak-and-dagger secrecy. To ensure security, they typed their own letters and memos. The project even had a code name: Operation Nugget...
Leahy said the substitution of epoxy for cement grouting conforms to the new state law despite the fact that the Center is exempted from the new building code. Construction contracts were signed before the new law went into effect. "The epoxy was substituted to provide stiffening" against lateral strees, Leahy said...
Jackson could hold little hope that by confessing he might deter the county from prosecuting him. Moreover, he belonged to a subculture and subscribed to its code that deems fingering for the cops only slightly less offensive than being a cop. In his autobiography in Soledad Brother, Jackson explains proudly how his charging of the policeman he claims fired at him and his confessing to crimes he had not committed took the heat off his partners and friends. Thus, it would seem highly improbable that Jackson confessed in hopes of receiving a state's evidence immunity...