Word: coding
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...which account for almost three-quarters of the world's production - are, as always, expected to deliver on time. But from now on, workers' welfare will be checked twice. Starting with China, the International Council of Toy Industries (ICTI) - representing toy makers associations from 18 countries - is implementing a code for working conditions in toy factories across the globe. To obtain a certificate of compliance, factories will have to let auditors annually assess worker health and safety. Complying with the code isn't mandatory, but moral suasion may work. "Buyers are increasingly choosy," says David Hawtin, president of the ICTI...
...says the channel's marketing and communication director, Pierre Garnier. Unlike the GAY-TV audience, who can pick up the channel free with a satellite dish, Pink TV viewers will pay an extra j9 a month to watch the selection of game shows, documentaries and lifestyle programs. A secure code will also allow access to four adult films it plans to air per week. This has caused the channel's launch to be delayed for two months; while France's broadcasting regulator csa has given approval for Pink TV to show porn, it's still not satisfied that the channel...
...issue a public report until June of this year—and when it did so, it refused to release the names or locations of factories, shielding offending factories from any public scrutiny and rendering the reports themselves impossible to verify. Further, the FLA has no provision in its code of conduct against sexual harassment or sex discrimination, and has never taken action without the WRC investigating and acting first. It doesn’t take a Harvard student (or president) to note that this is not a track record that inspires confidence...
...book, Ely (pronounced EE-lee) argued that judges cannot interpret the Constitution by its language and history alone, nor can they infer a code of morality from it. Instead, Ely said, judges have an obligation to protect the democratic process as laid out in the Constitution...
While most kids seem to take the code as merely an inside joke, some schools like Fort McCoy in Marion County, Fla., have banned the bracelets. "It's a hot-button topic here," says school-board member Sue Mosley, who has heard complaints from parents at middle schools. Some kids defend the bracelets as just kitschy accessories. "I've been wearing my bracelet since eighth grade," says 15-year-old Roby Behrens of Los Angeles. "It's a fashion thing. You don't need them to have sex, but people do use them to kiss or get to third base...