Word: code
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...political beliefs are based on religious beliefs, personal values I guess I got from my dad," says Anderson, who says he is convinced that America would be a better place if everyone were Christian, or at least adopted some religious code. "But a lot of it is logic, common sense. These are decent moral values. Government has a responsibility to protect society, to keep it decent...
...Rape has long been treated by the American press as a special situation. Hiding the victim's name, the argument went, protected her from the secondary trauma of exposure to prurient public attention. Journalistic policy elsewhere varies. The Code of Practice, drawn up by Britain's Press Council, prohibits newspapers from naming rape victims without their consent. In France, on the contrary, adult rape victims are usually named. In the U.S. three states have confidentiality laws that protect the identity of rape victims. But these are in limbo, largely because of the 1989 Supreme Court ruling in Florida Star...
...Robb, Senators Lloyd Bentsen and John Breaux and Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton are the D.L.C.'s stars. Dizzy with turning points, raw with fresh starts, wide-awake with new days dawning, their new Democratic Party has blotted out the L word with the M word: mainstream. That is D.L.C. code for letting the constituency it wants to woo know that the constituency it used to depend on -- feminists, gays, blacks and Big Labor -- has lost influence...
...high-decibel speaker, House majority leader Richard Gephardt, seems too opportunistic as he screeches out a hard-rock message of economic nationalism and a Free Enterprise Corps while bashing Bush for timidity. Bill Bradley is the party's rap star, tapping out his proposals for Third World debt, tax-code overhaul and international monetary reform in monotone...
After the slayings, the sons dealt with their grief in different fashions. The elder bought a Porsche and a restaurant in Princeton, near the university from which he had been expelled in 1988 because of honor-code violations. His brother abandoned plans to enter UCLA and joined the junior professional tennis circuit...