Word: coded
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...keeping with the Bucharest principle, Israel bowed to several P.L.O. demands aimed at giving the autonomy authority at least some of the trappings of statehood. The Gaza Strip will have its own international dialing code, no longer sharing Israel's 972 exchange, and the Palestinian authority will be empowered to issue passports to residents of the two enclaves. In return, the P.L.O. accepted a three-mile limitation on territorial waters off the Gaza Strip and gave Israel air rights over the self-rule zones...
...cards and automated billing systems, there have also been glitches or concerns about fraud and privacy. At Chemical Bank, for example, automated teller machines mistakenly deducted a total of $16 million from 100,000 customer accounts in February because of a typographical error in a single line of computer code. The bank bounced 430 checks as a result of the malfunction...
...about 80 owners from the Hampshire Homes development in Kendall, Fla. filed suit against Lennar for failing to comply with the South Florida Building Code, which is particularly stringent because of the danger of violent storms...
They claimed that their homes were built with defective roof trusses, shoddymaterials, improperly installed roofs, hurricanestraps, untreated wood and ungalvanized nails. Asin the Hampshire Homes suit, the plantiffs arguedthat Lennar houses failed to meet the SouthFlorida Building Code...
Miller and other Lennar officials argued inthis case as well that their houses werestructurally sound and built to code. HurricaneAndrew, they said, was simply too powerful formost buildings to withstand...