Word: coded
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...something to justify and explain, but something that should be accepted. Until people accept us, all the scientific evidence in the world will not do anything to change homophobia." Moreover, gays are worried that precise identification of a "gayness gene" might prompt efforts to tinker with the genetic code of gay adults or to test during pregnancy and abort potentially gay fetuses. Says Thomas Stoddard, director of the Campaign for Military Service: "One can imagine the science of the future manipulating information of this kind to reduce the number of gay people being born...
...Philip Dowds, a Cambridge resident who is active in local politics, said he believes the proposal is an effort to distract the public from seeking reforms in the tax code that would ask the rich to pay more and, thus, raise more revenue...
...view is that the entire American tax code was made regressive during the 1980s," Dowds said. "I see this shenanigan as a dodge to avoid the reworking of the tax code that is necessary...
...fact, there are now some 250 ongoing projects involving NCR and AT&T units, focusing on such crucial areas as messaging, network computing, wireless communications and desktop video. The merged companies, for instance, are developing a cash machine that identifies customers by voice rather than by a numerical code punched on a keypad. NCR has been given the key to the famed Bell Laboratories research center. Says Stead: "It's like a kid being let loose in a candy store...
...rift between Clinton and the military? This bad: the Air Force is investigating whether Major General Harold Campbell called the President "draft dodging," "gay loving," "pot smoking" and "womanizing" in a speech three weeks ago at an Air Force banquet in the Netherlands. Because the Uniform Code of Military Justice bars officers from making "contemptuous" remarks about the President or other senior government officials, Campbell could face court-martial, one year in prison and loss of $66,000 a year in retirement pay. However, the White House seemed disinclined to get into a scrape with...