Word: codes
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Last week Britons were shocked and titillated by tales of a far more ominous "Tinker Bell": an innocuous-looking five-story post office building, aptly code-named after the eavesdropping fairy, that reportedly houses an extensive government telephone-tapping operation behind its tightly drawn white curtains...
...efforts have been met with firm resistance on the part of the landlord: they responded to our report that the building was in serious disrepair by petitioning the Cambridge Rent Board to increase our rents by 35 to 90%. Only after the Cambridge Health Department cited over 130 health code violations in our apartments and the building did Hunneman and Harvard Real Estate begin to make repairs--with the implict threat that they would be taken to court if they did not make the repairs. At first Harvard Real Estate used Hunneman as a whipping boy for past mistakes...
...Wilson is again the subject of an inquiry by the House Ethics Committee. He stands accused of 15 counts of violating House rules and the Code of Ethics for Government Service. Wilson, the head of a subcommittee on the post office, is charged with dealing irregularly with Lee Rogers, a California millionaire, who runs a mail order firm. The Ethics Committee accuses Wilson of accepting $15,500 from Rogers between 1971 and 1973 "under circumstances which might be construed as influencing the performance of his [Wilson's] governmental duties." The committee also claims that Wilson employed Rogers...
Tynan smartly cracks the code of Carson's durable popularity. What you see is what you get: a complete professional, as fast on the draw as any who share his spotlight; a neatly dressed Midwesterner whose underlying rectitude is beamed to millions of weary nine-to-fivers as a conspiratorial wink indicating that show people may be glamorous, but they are not to be taken seriously Tynan, the great appreciator of rare abilities, can explain the aggressive surrealism of Mel Brooks' ethnic humor, but it does not quite appear to be the Briton...
...Criminal Justice subcommittee hearings grew out of the Senate consideration of the Criminal Code Reform Act, which included a provision to decriminalize marijuana...