Word: coding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...give the operators time to act, the State Department has installed heavy steel doors that can be slid into place to block the stairways to the upper floors of embassies, where the code rooms are located. Another new security ploy: nozzles in the corridors that at the push of a button spew tear or nausea gas on invaders...
That claim ought to be rejected until and unless the Soviet Union shows some sign of agreeing with the U.S. on a joint code of superpower conduct that forbids, or at least inhibits, naked aggression and the exploitation of regional instability. At their summit meeting in Moscow in 1972, Nixon and Brezhnev actually tried to formulate such a code, but it was hopelessly vague and thus catered to the Soviets' love of lofty-sounding principles and giant loopholes. The key phrase in the twelve-point declaration of principles they signed: "Both sides recognize that efforts [by one] to obtain unilateral...
...question is whether "honesty" and "fatherland" are, in the U.S.S.R., irreconcilable enemies. Soviet film makers work under many ideological restraints -some subtle, some blatant-that began with a five-year plan set down by Goskino. Like the production schedule of an oldtime Hollywood studio, the code calls for production funds to be divided among pictures in a variety of genres. But the genres in question touch on themes that only an apparatchik could love: tales of young workers and peasants heroically exceeding their quotas...
...cities. While Atlanta still boasts that it is "a city too busy to hate" and racial friction seems mild, there is tinder in the deterioration of its public housing. About 50,000 blacks occupy such buildings, which are heavily rat infested. City officials have detected some 10,000 housing code violations in just one project...
...chairwoman of the A.P.A.'s ethics committee, Patricia Keith-Spiegel, acknowledges that radio psychologists are technically in violation of the association's code, but she argues that the code should be bent to accommodate the new trend. Says she: "My hunch is that they will double or triple in number within the next year or two. We don't want them to say, 'Either I'm going to be a star or a member of the A.P.A.' " In any case, as long as radio shrinks give only chatty-type advice rather than formal diagnoses...