Word: code
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...went into a gray-haired woman's apartment that had an inch-wide crack running across the ceiling. I tried to tell her that with rent control, she could force the landlord to abide by the housing code, She could make him fix the crack...
...over France on its way from Zurich to New York when French ground controllers were surprised to hear a woman speaking on the Swissair frequency. "Swissair Flight 100 is in our complete control," she said. "Our call sign is Haifa One. We will not answer to any other code." Meanwhile TWA Flight 741 had also issued a new call signal. It was Gaza...
...down guidelines limiting abortions to well-equipped hospitals and their affiliated clinics. Under these rules, relatively few hospitals are performing relatively few abortions, although far more than under the old law. In New York City, which enjoys medical home rule, health authorities have been unable to agree on a code. As a result, the city's physicians and hospitals are working in a legal vacuum-but most of them are working. More than 10,500 of the state's legal abortions so far have been performed in the city. Almost half of all the abortions took place...
Manhattan's Dr. Michael Bergman of the Council on Population Balance scoffs at the idea that a clinic needs the $250,000 worth of equipment recommended by proponents of a strict code. In fact, he believes that the commonly used standard equipment is wrong, since it requires a general anaesthetic for dilatation of the cervix and insertion of relatively large metal tools. Instead, Bergman uses only a local anaesthetic, and none at all in most cases, to permit insertion of a specially designed vacuum-suction tube only one-quarter inch in diameter. The instrument, smaller than those in general...
...Last week, however, that ending seemed somewhat in question. After a lengthy investigation, Piraeus Public Prosecutor Constantine Fafoutis formally recommended that Niarchos be charged with causing bodily injuries leading to his wife's death. The prosecutor suggested that Niarchos be tried under Article 311 of the Greek penal code, which corresponds to the Anglo-Saxon concept of involuntary homicide. Under Greek legal procedure, the prosecutor's recommendation now goes to a "penal council" composed of three magistrates, who must decide whether there is sufficient evidence to warrant bringing Niarchos to trial. If convicted under Article 311, Niarchos would...