Word: coding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Czechoslovak border. The Kremlin announced a two-week series of maneuvers by supply and repair units of the Red army from Riga on the Baltic to Odessa on the Black Sea and, of course, along the frontier with Slovakia. The Russians also launched nationwide antiair craft exercises under the code name Operation Skyshield...
...what is?and isn't?progress? Every force, it seems, save pride, encourages shoddy, unimaginative construction. Zoning laws set minimum standards that speculative builders take as maximum. Antiquated codes bar technological breakthroughs. New York, for instance, only two months ago finally got around to revising its 30-year-old code. An office building can be written off for tax purposes in 45 years ?so why build it to last any longer? Admits one construction-company official: "There's no such thing as a luxury rental building?only middle-income buildings at luxury prices." Most low-rent housing developments, says...
...basis for keeping a kosher household is the Halakah, Judaism's Scripture-based code of 613 religious laws that regulate every facet of life. Among the most detailed provisions of Halakah are its dietary laws. Jews, for example, are forbidden to eat meat and dairy food at the same meal, or from the same dishes. By tradition, an observant housewife must have four sets of dishes, silverware and kitchen accessories: one for meat, one for dairy products, and two sets used only during the season of Passover. To avoid the danger of contamination, meat and dairy dishes must...
...takeover was handled. With the aid of two prestigious British financial advisers, Cazenove and Morgan Grenfell, American Tobacco scooped up a commanding 16.6% of Gallaher's shares by offering a select price to big shareholders. That, complained the City, violated Article Seven of the recently written "takeover code," which makes it unethical to make a purchase offer to some shareholders instead...
...question arose in the case of Army SP4 Clayton Anderson, a 14-year veteran who went AWOL while stationed at Fort Polk, La., in November 1964. Anderson turned himself in on February 10, 1967, and was eventually found guilty of "unauthorized absence." But under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, the statute of limitations for prosecution of an unauthorized absence is two years-except "in time of war." Congress, said Anderson's lawyers, has yet to declare war. The peacetime statute of limitations had run out before their client was tried. Therefore he should be freed...