Word: coded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...three-Justice opinion -- concurred in by Harry Blackmun and John Paul Stevens -- stated, "Some of us as individuals find abortion offensive to our most basic principles of morality, but that cannot control our decision. Our obligation is to define the liberty of all, not to mandate our own moral code." Despite this affirmation of Roe, the court permitted greater restrictions on abortion by the states. In a 7-to-2 vote, the three were joined by Justices William Rehnquist, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Byron White (all of whom had scathingly dissented from the affirmation of Roe) in upholding provisions...
...suit accused the airlines of using a code on computerized reservations systems to signal when prices were going up or down. The airlines denied any wrongdoing. As part of last week's settlement, though, the four agreed to provide $368.5 million worth of discounts to passengers who can prove they purchased a ticket on one of the four carriers and flew through any of 34 principal U.S. airports between Jan. 1, 1988, and June 30, 1992. If the settlement is approved by a federal court in Atlanta later this year, vouchers usable for discounts of up to 10% on most...
...longer surrounded by raving, hysterically nationalistic social deviants; I was now surrounded by raving, hysterically nationalistic social deviants in a frenzy." But even black humor bows out as Buford's tale of unrelenting, mindless violence and moronic patriotism unfolds, and the "lad culture" with its bloated code of maleness centered on the Saturday rite of soccer is revealed in all its crude nihilism...
Time Takes Time occupied a notable team of four top producers (Don Was, Jeff Lynne, Peter Asher and Phil Ramone), 14 songwriters (including Ringo) and such graybeard kibitzers as Brian Wilson (who provides a Morse-code background % vocal of dit dit dit-dits on the Diane Warren tune In a Heart Beat). Somehow it all coheres, perhaps because this musical militia wanted to honor the group that shaped their pop tastes, and to do it with the one Beatle who could take direction from them as he did from Lennon and McCartney...
...economic end. Has anyone ever met a child happy not to know who his father is? In the projects, the boy with a father is king. In the wider world, children may go astray and end up being moral relativists, but in their formative years, they adhere to a code of conduct more traditional than the decor at Williamsburg...