Word: code
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...downstairs? We trotted down the thickly carpeted stairs and sat down at the bar - five feet from Reagan adviser Michael Deaver! He was having a Coke and telling a story about not having hot water in a hotel room, which my lunch partner pointed out was probably code for "Contras" and "Nicaragua...
...Linda Marie Chandler filed suit after she was fired for refusing to wear bicycle tights at Champions sports bar in Tysons Corner, Va. The bar revised its dress code so waitresses can wear baggy shorts...
Nearly every politician in Washington agrees that the marriage penalty is unfair. Who could think otherwise? The penalty--a quirk in the tax code that forces some married couples to pay higher taxes than they would if they were single--seems to make as much sense as a tax on baseball or apple pie. Here's how the penalty works: If a man and woman, each making $60,000, fall in love and marry, they will be pushed into a higher tax bracket. The $120,000 couple will pay a higher rate than the two singles would have. It seems...
...thing, there's no easy way to remedy it. A progressive income tax with multiple rates is a complicated proposition, and somebody is always going to get the short end of the stick. Arbitrariness is in the nature of a code with brackets. In the '50s and '60s, single people paid higher tax rates than they would have if they had been married. So an organized singles lobby--there really was one at the time--pressed Washington for a remedy, and thus the marriage penalty was born. Now married people are complaining. But if they get their...
...VESDROPPING The FBI is drawing fire from civil-liberties groups for snooping on e-mail. Agents have been using a device with the not-so-appealing code name Carnivore that monitors all Internet communications to and from a suspect in an investigation. The FBI uses Carnivore only with a court order, but the A.C.L.U. claims that its legal status is still murky. Attorney General Janet Reno has agreed to look into it. Maybe if they just renamed it "Herbivore...