Events are given a code, made of numbers and letters, describing the type of event and classification of the athletes competing.

Most contain text specified at the time of mastering; this usually consists of the string "IFPI" followed by a code describing the mastering system used, then followed by a text product description, and finally a bar code.

At the same time, invoking Mr. Rove, at least among the Democratic loyalists who vote in primaries, is a kind of code describing a president who Democrats say is manipulated by the political strategist behind the curtain.

A code describing the arrival process.

There also are codes describing a horse's trip in each race.

The generation process is managed by a set of 'recipes,' reusable code describing the scope of functions and objects to be generated.

The F.B.I. says it found a spiral notebook in Mr. Regan's possession with codes describing images of a missile launcher in the northern no-fly zone over Iraq and of another launcher in China.

The actual running of the software was done the night before each broadcast round of the 'computer championship' and took approximately 45 minutes to run, the output was a formatted report containing a series of codes describing each punch.