Word: code
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...this time. In early December the weekly Der Spiegel claimed that under the old regime he regularly provided information to the infamous Ministry of State Security, popularly known as Stasi. The magazine reproduced a Stasi file card indicating that an informant lived at De Maiziere's Berlin address. His code name: Czerny, the surname of a 19th century Austrian composer...
Worst Screening Policy Texas' McAllen Medical Center, which sits in a crossing zone heavily trafficked by aliens, outfitted security guards in olive-colored togs that bear a strong resemblance to the uniforms of U.S. Border Patrol agents. Legal-aid lawyers charge that the dress code scared off poor Hispanics in need of health care...
Best New Dining Concept One of the earliest harbingers of economic recession wasn't longer lines at soup kitchens. It was the sight of trendy restaurants frantically begging for new customers by lowering prices, simplifying menus and advertising themselves as -- code words of the '90s -- cafes, grills, bistros or trattorias...
...child is a precise metaphysician. He (or she) writes down name, house number, street, town, state, ZIP code, country . . . and then, to be exact, "Planet Earth, the Solar System, the Galaxy, the Universe." Creation is an onion with many skins, all layering outward from the child's self. If he gets lost in the galaxy, he can find the way back, can fly through the concentric circles to his own house -- from outermost remoteness to innermost home. Nostalgia means the nostos algos, the agony to return home. What got broken long ago in Ernest was his charts and instruments...
...piece of broken mirror against the wall so that the entire length of the corridor was visible from my partly open door. It was a group rule that everyone checked the mirror before stepping into the hall. When we made visits, knocks on the door required still another code...