Word: coded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...remarkable campaign of dirty tricks that used code names such as "Mission Atlantic" and "Operation Covent Garden," B.A. (which operates 250 airliners) fought for more than two years to destroy the reputation of its tiny (eight planes) competitor and steal its passengers. But a London court has ordered the giant airline to pay Virgin's flamboyant founder Richard Branson $945,000 in damages and pick up court costs approaching $3 million. Branson is now mulling whether to sue B.A. in U.S. courts...
...BOTTOM LINE: Children gun one another down for fancied slights to a gang's code of honor...
...grab robbery (smash a storefront with a car, wait for the glass to settle, and grab the goods) were agreeable moneymakers, but what gave the Crips their legends and their heroes were drive-by shootings in Bloods territory, to avenge real or fancied dissing -- slights to the gang's code of honor...
...huge drop in advertising revenues, and Murdoch's reliance on short-term loans at a time when interest rates were rising rapidly. Suddenly $7.6 billion in debt, owed to 146 different institutions, had to be rolled over. An obscure Citibank vice president, Ann Lane, put together a rescue plan code-named Dolphin, and with Murdoch's help wheedled all the lenders into buying it. Thanks largely to Lane, Murdoch was spared the humiliating option of going belly-up into bankruptcy and losing control of his empire...
Demonstrators asked Columbia's Dean of the College Jack Greenberg to sign a statement opposing the project and demanded amnesty for violating the university's code of conduct...