Word: coded
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Pressured by parents, the district changed course again last fall and enacted a progressive code, which offers more options short of suspension, including in-school detention. Yet the nettlesome racial disparity persists, along with the smoldering debate over whether black students are getting fair treatment. Indeed, the 1974 case that is at the root of the controversy was supposedly settled 10 years ago when the Cincinnati board of education agreed to a laundry list of remedies to desegregate the schools. But there was one caveat: After seven years, the courts would review compliance. In 1991 a judge found that...
...obstruction of justice -- even in the minds of Administration officials. Says one: "Based on the facts we believe Fiske has developed during his grand jury sessions, it's possible that at least one and perhaps several Section 1505 indictments could issue." Section 1505 of Title 18 of the U.S. Code brands any attempt to "influence, obstruct or impede the due and proper administration of the law" a crime punishable by imprisonment as long as five years...
Maybe not. But last week, after the Chicago Tribune broke the news of Poisson's misconduct, it was clear that his "white lies" were a breach of science's code of honor. Physicians were aghast, government officials were embarrassed, and breast-cancer victims were fretting about whether they had received the best treatment. Coming in the wake of a whole series of highly publicized allegations of fraud in the scientific world -- some unjustified -- the clear-cut case against Poisson dealt a new blow to the reputation of the research community. Said a federal scientist involved with the investigation: "This...
...Bush bought a new Boston whaler for the Maine summers, he held a naming contest and executed some grandfatherly diplomacy by giving almost every entry some award, ending with two names that were painted on the boat: Speedy Sea King and Wa-Wa's Devil, which is Bush family code for their housekeeper, Paula Rendon...
...says. "I kind of enjoy it." His inner urgency to know everything has subsided. "I don't try to read the hot line that somebody sent me or the latest column. I mean, 'Who's up, who's down' -- I don't give a damn anymore." The flinty code of propriety that has always weighted him is in evidence. Only a few close friends know his doubts about Clinton's stewardship. They go to the nature of the man, questions about his resolve and principles. Bush has questioned some of Clinton's policies publicly, but usually does so indirectly...