Word: code
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nova, led by ex-BBC Producer Brian Kaufman, finds the National Fire Protection Association's 16-volume code as outdated as it is voluminous-at least for protecting high-rises. The law does not adequately take into account the combustibility of new plastics that fill modern office towers, or the toxicity of their combustion products-factors that are now thought responsible for the ferocity of the fireball that swept through the MGM Grand Hotel last November, killing 84 people...
...most important new autos on the boards are efficient-looking compacts to replace the Fairmont and Mercury Zephyr. Cars in the new line, code-named Topaz, have a four-cylinder engine, front-wheel drive and a sloping hood. They are designed to compete head-on with the Chrysler K-cars, the Dodge Aries and Plymouth Reliant, and the General Motors X-body models: the Chevrolet Citation, Pontiac Phoenix, Oldsmobile Omega and Buick Skylark...
...computer users. Once they have a machine (or hardware), they have to buy programs (or software) that will enable the computer to perform the desired functions. The programs, which are mainly recorded on vinyl discs about the size of a 45 r.p.m. record, are instructions written in a mathematical code the machine can ingest...
...inwardly fuming son of a rich Jewish family, ever conscious, despite his enrollment at Cambridge, of subtle, painful discrimination. He would beat these gentlemen at their own avocation-amateur sport. If that goal required paying a professional coach (wonderfully played by Ian Holm), a tactic that was against the code if not the formal rules, so be it. Liddell was of an entirely different breed. The modest and pious son of missionaries, he ran, as he saw it, for the glory of God. If his faith told him that he must not break the Sabbath by running on Sunday, then...
...Pettinato was mystified by the writings. Cuneiform is, after all, not a language, only a style of writing. While the epigraphist could recognize the characters, some of them formed words of a language he had never encountered. Pettinato pondered photographs of the tablets for three months, then cracked the code. Sumerian characters had been used to write an early Western Semitic tongue he dubbed "Eblaite." On other tablets, straight Sumerian was written, functioning as an official language, as Latin did in medieval Europe...