Word: coded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Observant Lamont patrons often notice that many books have a strip on the cover for bar codes and expect to use them instead of filling out a card. Unfortunately, very few staff members at Lamont have light pens in their index fingers. FAS started to bar-code some Lamont books several years ago, but at the last moment decided to postpone installing the computers and putting the system on-line...
...gelded the St. Louis Cardinals in 1928. In both epochs the winning team hit five home runs in one game; in both, no contest was decided by fewer than three runs. Canseco twitched off the Dodgers jinx and launched one of his ho-hum homers into the 900 area code. Eckersley, accused during the Toronto play-offs of doctoring the ball, hardly needed to suit up, let alone sand up, as the A's performed what amounted to surgery without anesthesia. At the end, in the champagneless locker room, the satisfied heart of A's manager Tony La Russa could...
Even more restrictively, the Pope directs local bishops to take "the initiatives necessary" to strengthen a school's Catholic character. The decree's most contentious elements are printed in the smallest type: footnotes | cite clauses in the 1983 Code of Canon Law that mandate a local bishop's prior approval for appointments of religion teachers and that empower bishops to remove dissident faculty, although it is unclear how that would be accomplished...
...label lacks sex appeal. NC-17: it could be the license plate of the deputy attorney general of North Carolina. Instead it is the movie industry's latest code phrase, designating certain films for adults only -- no children under 17 allowed. Hollywood used to call...
...with a recognition that the American concept and practice of freedom have been distorted. To the founders it was self-evident that freedom required obligations; in the past half-century the notion of a citizen's obligations virtually disappeared from public discourse, while "duty" came to be almost a code word for fascism. About the only thing that is talked about, demanded, praised is citizen's rights (some of them pretty exotic). The Second American Century must involve a new balance of rights and obligations...