Word: coded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...weekends, the club enforces a dress code to maintain the club's character, Constantine says. But business from Harvard students appears slow lately...
...THERE'S THIS LITTLE black box full of mysterious and potent electronics that all kinds of people, good, bad and ambiguous, want to possess. The prize is merely the key to the universe -- or anyway that portion of it that is computer-driven. The box can decipher any security code and permit anyone, hacker or master criminal, a free, personally enriching, socially destructive play in this great new field of dreams...
Both were leaders in their fields. But in back-to-back reversals of fortune, Wang Laboratories and Phar-Mor took refuge from their creditors in Chapter 11 of the U.S. bankruptcy code. Wang, whose word processors led the charge into office automation in the 1970s, said it would lay off 5,000 of its remaining 13,000 workers. The Massachusetts-based company had been piling up losses for years after missing out on the personal computer revolution. Big losers included the family of the late An Wang, who founded the company in 1951. From a peak of $1.6 billion...
...abruptly transformed the distant saga of suffering into a political question too sharp to ignore: Is it wise for the West -- or is it required of the West -- to intervene with military force in the Balkans? Does the new world order that George Bush espouses encompass a minimal moral code, starting with the command of the Holocaust-inspired international convention on genocide to "prevent and to punish" mass killings of ethnic groups? Or is Secretary of State James Baker right to argue that in Yugoslavia -- and by extension in other bloody ethnic conflicts in countries not central to the immediate...
...prince's girls, not for their potential as royals but "to see how much a threat they posed to her own relationship." When the naive Diana said she didn't enjoy hunting, Camilla, a horsewoman, brightened at once. Then there was the discovery of Fred and Gladys -- the pet code names by which Charles and Camilla communicated -- gifts, flowers, notes...