Word: coding
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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EVEN before the comprehensive health code that went into effect last July, every Soviet citizen was entitled to "free and highly qualified medical assistance"-including compulsory treatment for mental illness, venereal disease, chronic alcoholism and drug addiction. The new code, however, goes far beyond individual illness. Some of its provisions deal at length with environmental controls to protect health by combatting the country's growing pollution; others bar the construction of factories in population centers and promote the development of health resorts...
...Tora! Tora! Tora! demonstrates, the infamy was double-edged. Late in 1940, American cryptographers cracked the Japanese code and predicted war-to deaf ears. An hour before the bombing, the Japanese raiders were detected as blips on a primitive radar screen-and were dismissed by American officers as "our B-17s." As a compound tragedy of omission and commission, the events leading down to Dec. 7 could provide the grossest scenarists with a wide-screen epic. Those, apparently, are the ones 20th Century-Fox hired...
...Literally, Tiger! Tiger! Tiger! - Japanese code for "attack launched...
...recommended that all universities formulate codes of proper conduct and announce in advance penalties for violation of the code. In the event of campus violence, it recommended prompt use of law enforcement agencies...
...rigid curfews enforced by the threat that any violators will be shot on sight, reporters lose a fundamental of good reporting-mobility. And in the case of the Jordanian fighting, telephone and telex circuits were cut within minutes of the first shot, leaving reporters dependent upon a single Morse code connection to Beirut. Soon they did not even have that. A power failure cut off electricity to all of Amman, ending the link...