Word: codes
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...plan of Vice President Gore is also somewhat imperfect. At a cost of roughly $500 billion with interest, the program is considerably more reasonable than Bush's tax splurge. Yet the many targeted tax components would add a number of new exceptions to the tax code, and there is a virtue in simplicity, especially when political logrolling is an ever-present threat. In many ways, the credits proposed by Gore represent spending programs under a different name. But the aims of the programs are admirable: we are very glad to see Gore's proposal to expand the EITC, a program...
...passion was tea bowls--the "active," intimately handled objects of a ceremony that, imported from China, had been turned by its first Japanese grandmaster, Sen No Rikyu, into a cultural rite linked to Zen Buddhism. The "way of tea" had become an essential part of the samurai-influenced code of upper Japanese behavior. It connoted roughness, naturalness and--at its origins, at least--lack of pretension. In it, aesthetics and morality were conjoined, under the sign of severe restraint...
...spite of Napster founder Shawn Fanning's self-portrait as a poor, starving code renegade, the fact remains that his company is a well-financed corporate entity. If you take away the glamour of computer-era hype, what Fanning has done is not new: from the Tin Pan Alley days, businesspeople have sought to rip off artists for profit. But things have progressed. Song sharks used to be small-time hustlers; today they are glorified on the cover of TIME magazine. ERIC VINCENT Philadelphia...
...first, I suspected that "fuzzy math'' simply meant "inaccurate numbers.'' But Bush flatly refused to replace Gore's fuzzy numbers by clean-shaven ones of his own, so eventually this idea began to seem untenable. Then, for awhile, I concluded that "fuzzy math'' was code for "high-fallutin' Washington-style use of numbers instead of words.'' But I was also unable to hold on to this belief for too long, because Bush himself cited plenty of numbers as the evening progressed...
...begin issuing smart cards designed by Gemplus. They will compete with American Express's new Blue smart card, which can be used in personal computers equipped with card readers. These systems provide excellent security for online shopping; the purchase won't go through unless the owner types in a code that matches the one stored on the card's chip...