Word: origin
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...panelists said at the time that they alsoinvestigating other theories on the origin of thefraud, but wound not elaborate...
Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national origin in any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance...
...origin of it has to do with when we were recording Hitchhiker on the radio. There was a pub right around the corner from the studio...There was a guy there who had made sandwiches as if they were an extraordinary work of art," Adams said...
...about 1,000 years. Some of it stems from the magical allure of special numbers, and some of it from Scripture. The 20th chapter of the New Testament book of Revelation (or Apocalypse) inscribes a famous vision of martyrs who "reigned with Christ a thousand years." This is the origin of the celebrated capital-M Millennium (from the Latin for thousand...
...course, any sort of beautiful/ugly dichotomy is obscured, in large part by lyrics twisted enough to induce mental rubbernecking. And the music's origin an the product of one man's technological tinkering only enhances the alienated tone of the songs themselves...