Word: coding
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These incidents led a black student group to call for a speech code on campus. Thomas’ book follows HLS through the next three tumultuous years, during which time a speech code was a very real possibility. But he does not stick religiously to the plot: as Thomas introduces different professors and administrators, he often gives extensive histories of their legal and political careers. It is in these biographical sketches that he is harshest...
...pick because it just keeps getting better-there are separate sites listing ads for bikes, boats, baby gear, musical instruments, jobs, apartments (you name it) in 120 cities in 25 countries. Only certain businesses pay listing fees. LiveDeal.com likewise works to connect buyers and sellers who share a zip code, to facilitate sales of used items that are difficult to ship-or that most people would want to try before buying (furniture, cars)- something you can't do on, say, eBay...
Some Mississippians were shocked that the cold-blooded triple murder had not turned out to be a hoax after all. "I just didn't think we had people like that around," said a Jackson high school coach. Others seemed equally shocked that someone had violated the "code" by squealing...
Black programs show up in the defense budget under such cryptic code names as Link Hazel and Dreamland, and receive funds without the ordinary congressional review. Current projects, according to those who have peeked behind the veil, run the gamut from Grass Blade, designed to develop an air-defense system for intercepting low-flying helicopters, to Pilot Fish, aimed at placing transmitters on the ocean floor to pick up sonar data and transmit it to antisubmarine warfare craft. Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Donald Hicks says that black budgeting is necessary "because a government as open...
Breslin sets most of his action in the early '70s, after Owney returns from Viet Nam. His war experiences are locked inside him, and he has thrown away the key. He is literally and figuratively an underground man, emotionally detached from his family but bound by code and tradition to his brother sandhogs...