Word: arisen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chemistry are any guide, life should not exist. Scientists showed in the 1950s that shooting an electric spark through a soup of chemicals -- thus simulating lightning strikes on the primordial planet earth -- could produce simple organic compounds. But complex, self-reproducing chemicals like dna? They shouldn't have arisen in a trillion years. At an even deeper level, the second law of thermodynamics dictates that the universe should inexorably move toward disorganization. Cups of tea always cool off; they never spontaneously get hotter. Iron rusts, but rust never turns into iron...
...Much of the race relations hoopla from the administration has arisen out of the doordrop 'On the Harvard Plantation,'" says Ali. "It's frustrating because we have to demonstrate what the problems...
Orion Ross directs the play with a scope and insight so engaging that they could only have arisen from his clear vision of his own adaptation. That adaptation is not ideal: it attempts to maintain the original text, but important phrases are "translated" into modern English. Since the important phrases are mainly sexual slang, this sometimes leads to clumsy contrast...
Conference planners also gave some delegates a dose of real world drama early yesterday morning when members of the Security Council were surprised by a 2:30 a.m. crisis call: A conflict had arisen between Georgianand Russian troops. The students convened untilnine in the morning to defuse the situation...
...this century, an entire futurology industry has arisen to satisfy the planning needs of corporations, governments and military establishments. At the same time, the popular audience for social trends and future talk has grown steadily. Toffler (Powershift), John Naisbitt (Megatrends 2000) and Faith Popcorn (The Popcorn Report) have all made visits to the best-seller list in the past two years...