Word: coded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Murphy had said from the outset that this would not be the year. Students, alumni, journalists and even players had predicted a winning season at the least, a league championship at the most. But Murphy had held firm. He had adhered to a simple, businessmanlike code of etiquette: avoid predictions, qualify optimism, look at the larger picture...
...fact is, the state income tax is already highly progressive. The tax code contains numerous deductions and exemptions which benefit low-income families. In fact, income taxes for those in the lowest quintile are less than the national avergage. Meanwhile, Massachusetts taxes those in the highest quintile heavier than the national average...
Some time later, a man appeared at Rodriguez's side with a briefcase. Inside were copies of the Colombian penal code and a letter detailing his surrender proposal, which he suggested Quinn read over...
...Toft says narcodollars have influenced "from 50% to 75% of the Colombian Congress." The traffickers have also bought an unknown number of prosecutors, policemen and soldiers. But "their most significant victory," claims a U.S. diplomat, was the surrender program for retiring dons. "The Cali cartel dictated the penal-code reform," he says. Under the 1993 code revisions, drug traffickers who turn themselves in can have their sentences reduced by as much as two-thirds at the discretion of a judge or prosecutor. Any pending charges to which they do not plead are dismissed and cannot be revisited...
...patch" replaces pieces of the operating system's code to remove bugs that can cause instability, including the frequent crashes and slowness that have plagued fas this year...