Word: code
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...kills in selfdefense. And in condemning abortion we condemn ourselves. We should all feel guilty, after each abortion, for we are all part of the society that, of necessity, allows it. The state legislature has only been mistaken in trying to force this emotion through the code of the law. But as "the letter killeth," so do the abortionists, and which is worse...
...very least a personal triumph for Pinochet, who had tailored the new constitution to his own specifications. The charter outlaws doctrines "founded in class struggle" (a code phrase for Marxism) and commits Chile to a free-market economy. And though it specifies a return to democracy, the pace it mandates is leisurely enough to keep Pinochet in office until 1989-and possibly eight more years after that-when open presidential elections must finally be held...
...somber. The new warehouse carries less than half as many items as the chain's regular stores, and goods are put out on shelves while still in their shipping cartons. Individual items no longer carry the cost stamped on the top; prices are carried in the striped code that is read at the computerized checkouts. As a result, operating expenses are low, permitting the store to keep down its prices...
Back in Young's day the student code forbade even movies and the theater. TV made that untenable. Students are now advised to use "discretion" in entertainment. These strictures stir little student resistance; most Wheaton students come from families with similar behavior patterns. Says Deb Diller, 18, a pretty freshman from Pandora, Ohio: "The only thing I'm not allowed to do here that I do at home is dance. If I want to dance, I can dance in the summertime...
...waiting and the men who currently run the country. Broder's people, "immunized against the childhood diseases and exposed to endless hours of television," saw America slip from a position of unquestioned world superiority into the Era of Limits, American values crumble from a dependable, if not always righteous, code to a confused new national disorder. This generation watched-and in great measure caused-the demise of the great consensus of the 1950s and 1960s. Having seen the collapse of the old order, they must build anew...