Word: code
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Texas Congressman's wry complaint, offered in support of the toughest financial code of ethics ever imposed on a U.S. legislative body, was exaggerated, but based on reality. Rocked by scandals involving sex and bribes, and widely assailed for accepting a pay raise without facing up to a vote on it, the post-Watergate Congress is in trouble with its constituents. In the most recent Harris survey of public attitudes toward the leaders of 10 national institutions, members of Congress ranked eighth in esteem (liked even less: corporation executives and labor bosses...
...catch up with inflation. But he was convinced the raise would have been voted down if each legislator had been forced to take a public stand on it. So O'Neill pledged to link the pay raise with something he felt Congress needed even more: a code of ethics. This would seek to change the public perception that members of Congress devote less than full time to their jobs and pick up a lot of money from special interests in the form of generous speaking honorariums, lawyer's fees, gifts to secret office slush funds and occasionally outright...
Scientists themselves, like many of those at Denver, have been increasingly questioning their own role. Protesting science's callous use of human guinea pigs for experimentation, Dr. Richard M. Restak, a Washington neurologist, decries the fact that the prestigious National Institutes of Health refused to establish a code governing such experiments until its sponsored researchers were found guilty of injecting live cancer cells into uninformed subjects. Writing on the Op-Ed page of the New York Times, Restak voiced "a creepy realization that when left to their own devices, biomedical scientists are capable of some rather nasty mischief indeed...
...girl in the next room - a patient in the asylum who has been gang-raped into insensibility. In Lancelot's view, this outrage has purified her of every indulgence he hates in the modern world. Together they will be the new Adam and Eve, dedicated to "a stern code, a gentleness toward women and an intolerance of swinishness...
Vance's reference to "strategic interests" must be viewed warily. Ever since the outbreak of the Cold War, this term has been flashed as a code-word for U.S. opposition to national liberation movements abroad and support for any and all regimes that will safeguard America's sphere of influence and the business interests of U.S. firms. During this time, furthermore, the Pentagon has learned to use words like "strategic interests" in a vague and menacing way to justify the continued presence and build-up of U.S. weapons and military personnel in countries under blatantly corrupt and repressive leadership...