Parents are no longer content to be treated as cyphers, as some kind of painful prerequisite for children, and as nothing else.
A cypher has only to be able to be looked at and it is immediately compromised.
The employer is merely a cypher in it; the insurance company are fighting it.
If, on the other hand, the taxpayer pays too much, the local authorities become mere cyphers under the dictatorship of bureaucracy.
He is not a cypher, not one of a million pensioners, but an individual who has a special claim on the community.
It must be recognised that we are not mere cyphers and rubber stamps.
The reason for most of our difficulties in labour is that we felt that we had become economic cyphers and units of production only.
But the junior partner in this case would be practically a cypher and rather something in the nature of an apprentice.
