Word: coded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those few who do take up the gun say it is their duty to destroy leaders and governments that fail to rule strictly by Shari'a, the Islamic legal code. Violent Islamists usually pursue both a political and a social agenda in the name of the faith. While no state in the world is governed purely by Shari'a -- even Iran, Sudan and Saudi Arabia, which come closest to the ideal, compromise in some ways with the modern world -- Islamists focus their ferocity on the Muslim states such as Egypt, Algeria and Tunisia, which have tried to modernize...
...Harvard deserves a lot of credit for not having a speech code," she said. "I can understand how more conservative members of the community would feel in the minority, but I don't think it's accurate to call them oppressed...
...graduate of the Coyne Trade School, and an electrician by trade, Moore spends his on-duty hours fielding elevator complaint calls, acting as a code compliance officer, and maintaining the vehicles after the warranty period...
...state and city to get behind an authentically populist spectacle, a potential mix of tourist traps and hip outlets, mom-and-pop shops and name-brand superstores. The goal is not a "themed" simulacrum of honky-tonk diversity but the real thing. Such a splendidly oxymoronic turn: a municipal code for discouraging tastefulness, a quarter-billion dollars spent to conjure a trashy Damon Runyon spirit. The Bizarro-world rules call for, among other things, giant loudspeakers blasting onto the street, commercial signs noticeably out of alignment with their neighbors and virtually no size limit for billboards. "The bigger and noisier...
...motion vignette of working men -- the people whose labor subsidizes the idle class. Throughout, he shows he can be as attentive to the tiniest twinges of the heart as he has been to the gunfire of taxi drivers and goodfellas. Here, instead of shouting, people speak softly and in code. The movie is 135 thrilling minutes waiting for someone to come to the point. And that is the point: a man is at risk in this society if he says what he thinks or does what he feels...