Word: codes
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Hare International Airport Saturday night, and the presidential party was en route to a nearby hotel when walkie-talkies in the motorcade crackled to life and the drama began. There was to be a meeting later that night in Deacon's" room. Deacon is the Secret Service code name for President Jimmy Carter...
Central is an institution in which the faculty is effectively deprived of genuine decision-making power, under a Faculty Code which it had refused to accept. When this Code was about to be put into effect in the mid-70s, it was viewed as so objectionable that all major faculty organizations on the campus joined in an unsuccessful lawsuit aimed at preventing its being implemented, making particular objection to the reduction of the faculty role to a purely advisory one. But judges, especially in the lower courts, seem reluctant to interfere with the plenary authority of university administrators...
...specific terms, my case has become the initial test of the wide grounds stipulated in the Code for the dismissal of a tenured professor, the first of eleven grounds being "insubordination"--an undefined concept and wholly unrelated to professional performance as it is listed in this Code. There can be little doubt that the central administrative role in activating these pernicious Code provisions was played by President Donald Garrity himself. Garrity, who came to CWU in 1978 after a dozen turbulent years as Vice President of San Francisco State, did not hesitate when the issue over my professional trip...
...Central Intelligence Agency. In Baltimore last week, a grand jury indicted David Barnett, 47, a former CIA covert agent, on a single count of selling top-secret information to the agency's Soviet counterpart, the KGB. Barnett allegedly fed the Soviets details about a CIA operation code-named HABRINK, set up to collect data on Soviet weaponry systems...
...episode enraged U.A.W. officials, who have been frustrated in their efforts to organize workers at other Japanese facilities in the U.S. The U.A.W. complained to the National Labor Relations Board, charging that Honda's dress code was being used to block union organizing efforts. The U.A.W. also objects to Hon a's habit of calling its employees "associates," complaining that this is intended to blur labor-management distinctions in the workers' minds...