Word: coding
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They talk guardedly on walkie-talkies, using code names. No logos mark their cars. Their office buildings contain no names that would give away their business. These are not intelligence operatives or criminals. These are Western relief workers, and this is how they have been forced to work in Iraq, where they have been targeted dozens of times since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein's regime in April. The suicide car bombing at Red Cross headquarters in Baghdad last week, which took the lives of 12 victims, was particularly distressing to aid workers worldwide, who have come under assault...
Insurance payments can also get complicated. There is no American Medical Association--generated billing code for services provided entirely in a group setting, which means that for now that model is best suited to so-called capitated systems, in which doctors are paid a flat salary. Doctors conducting one-on-one exams followed by a group discussion can bill for individual visits, but Noffsinger, for one, is concerned that insurers could reduce those payments once they realize doctors can triple the number of patients they see. "The insurers have more to gain than anybody," he insists. "Their patients are serviced...
...sounds creepy and intrusive, but tracking exceptions to detect intruders is the basis for several new security approaches. And it has already become an invisible part of our lives. Stolfo has a start-up called System Detection, a two-year-old company whose tools scan networks and applications for code that shouldn't be there. Surveillance of this variety is effective--and it is going to be more pervasive. A number of start-ups are developing technology that sniffs out "aberrant" behavior. Like it or not, somebody is going to be watching...
...Harvard joined, the WRC would monitor the factories that produce Harvard insignia clothing to ensure that they are in compliance with Harvard’s code of conduct, which prohibits sweatshop conditions including excessive hours, forced overtime, health and safety violations, child labor abuse, poverty wages, discrimination, sexual harassment and efforts to prevent unionization. Factories would be under constant threat of investigation and loss of University contracts if they violated the code; and if such a threat did not deter abuse, the WRC would—as it has done reliably in the past—respond to worker complaints...
...will be up to the court to decide how much the oil company is responsible for what it may have ignored, but even if Unocal prevails in this case, the wave of litigation and scrutiny has forced America's giant corporations to take a fresh look at the moral code they follow in places that don?t abide by the rule...