Word: coding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This preppie code applies, thank God, to few other sports. Americans, and the kind of Britishers who attend soccer matches realize that when men congregate in short pants it is to compete, and, that competition involves a certain diminution of one's gentility. All basketball players--all basketball players--complain when they think an unjustified foul has been called, and many complain on principle, every time they hear a whistle. The thought of Mendy Rudolph bellowing, "Mr. Dawkins will resume play." The idea of the Garden scoreboard operator announcing to the assembled throng, "Mr. Tiny Archibald has been issued...
...starts and sudden brainstorms, erratic bursts of passion and apathy, brief setbacks and partial victories, is later discovered to be-in the light of America's gradual unveiling as the New Athens, New Rome and New Jerusalem all in one -an inevitable sequence of interlocking events, a divine code...
Peter Benchley has adapted his soft core sadomasochistic novel, which offers an explanation for all those ships that supposedly disappear in the Bermuda Triangle. He suggests that on one of the out islands is an entirely unmerry band of buccaneers, living by a squalid code unchanged since their ancestors washed up there a couple of centuries ago. It is they who come out of the night to rob and murder unsuspecting voyagers, then sink their ships to conceal the evidence of piracy. Michael Caine plays a reporter who is investigating the Triangle. On a fishing trip...
...four weeks of top-secret negotiations, two of Great Britain's most illustrious engineering companies, Rolls-Royce and Vickers, last week announced plans for a merger that was expected to create a company with annual sales of $1.3 billion. Like any good covert operation, the deal had a code name: War and Peace. The Tolstoyan title was appropriate. Vickers Ltd., code-named War, produced the Spitfire, which helped win the Battle of Britain. Rolls-Royce Motors, nicknamed Peace, has been building the world's most distinguished automobiles since...
...Royce Vickers. Euphony aside, the name is expected to add an element of prestige to the combine. First order of business for the new company: the fall roll-out of a successor to the 15-year-old Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow. The new car's prototype has been code-named the Rolls-009 and will, as the bottom-of-the-line model, sell for more than...