Word: coded
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Spread throughout the jungles that straddle Burma and Thailand, the rebels have settled into a life of well-ordered predictability. They subsist on teak logging and farming, attend church, send their children to school and adhere to a strict penal code (adultery carries the death penalty). Though there is no electricity at Manerplaw headquarters, a generator supplies power for that most prized necessity, a VCR. The leaders tend to be melancholy idealists, sad-eyed dreamers who pass evenings drafting and redrafting a Karen constitution for use in the improbable event that independence will be achieved. Gentle in gesture and speech...
...intent to circumvent Senate rules for my own benefit. I made every effort to seek opinion from the appropriate bodies and from legal counsel." But the Senator may also have violated the law: use of a Senate building for commercial purposes like paid speeches is prohibited by the criminal code. The free limousine service he accepted will probably be regarded as taxable income. Backdating a document related to the sale of his Minneapolis condominium could constitute fraud...
...result, Relman said, is that doctors are gaining a large financial stake in their own practice--a conflict of interest that would have never occurred under the old physician's code of ethics...
...Governors to be the final arbiters for the condemned. Judges and juries can take refuge in their assigned roles in the legal system. The executioner can say with truth that he is only doing his job. But for a Governor, there is no refuge save his conscience and moral code...
...evening in 1986, then Moscow bureau chief James Jackson, now in Bonn, completed a 2,500-word story on his portable computer and decided to run a spelling-check program to catch typos. He had not used the program in some time and could not remember the computer code name that activated it. Guessing, he ran a program mysteriously titled AB; when nothing seemed to happen, he ran it again. Jackson was then horrified to see his entire report reorganized into an alphabetical list of single words, from Akhromeyev to Zelenogorsk. It took three hours to reconstruct the story, after...