Around the office, data-mining experiments were given mysterious code names such as Narwhal and Dreamcatcher.
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Companies use a wide variety of code names when reporting them, and companies often only report them in the financial footnotes.
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Wegelin used sham corporations and foundations in Liechtenstein, Panama, and Hong Kong to hide the ball, accepted false documents and used code names and numbers to help U.S. clients remain in the shadows.
By the time we get to Froyo, the underlying platform -- and the API that devs need to target -- will be reaching legitimate maturity for the first time, which means we should have far fewer tasty treat-themed code names to worry about over the course of an average year.
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These are some of the code-names from long ago of the defended hill outposts and paratroop drop-zones set in the waving elephant grass of the Indochinese highlands at Dien Bien Phu.
Newspapers, like other factories, use code-names for their products.
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The system is marked by trust and informality, and operators are as sketchy with their records as any bookie--they have nothing but a scribble of first names or code words and a few details of the transaction.
And when genomics pioneer Craig Venter and colleagues created the first synthetic cell in 2010, they wrote their names into its DNA code, the way an artist might sign a painting, along with three literary quotations and a website address.
Should the Tax Code be used as a tool to hide the names of mega-givers to political candidates or the activities of lobbyists?
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These buttons and related code give social networks, which often know people's real names, an unprecedented overview of online behavior.
GMBuyPower requested my Zip Code, thought a long minute on it, then served up the names, addresses and phone numbers of three local dealers.
Done right, teams of Agile (also known as Scrum , Extreme, Lean, and a myriad of other names) developers work together better, write simpler, better code, and release new versions faster than through traditional styles of development such as Waterfall.
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Despite their less-than-friendly sounding names, referring to sections of the U.S. tax code, these programs are your friends.
And with McLaren set to face the sport's governing body, the FIA, on 29 April to answer charges of breaching the International Sporting Code, Dennis admits his departure will be welcomed by two of F1's biggest names.
And several of his clients, whose names he won't disclose, have already ordered their lives around the tax code: They play for teams in California but live elsewhere for tax reasons.
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