Word: originality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When I was in elementary school, our class was given an assignment to trace our ancestors to their country of origin. I could not do it. At that time it was hard for me to understand why I was the only student not able to complete the assignment. I commend Alex Haley for his accomplishment and only wish that I could have beaten...
...arguments, based on inferences about the past and not on verifiable experiments, could be similarly dismissed. And I would remind you that Darwin's theory remains the most profound and unifying generalization in biology: it is enormously supported today by the evidence from DNA sequences for the genetic origin and the continuity of the observed variation, but it also involves ecological processes and populational kinetics that require a totally different set of concepts and approaches from those of molecular genetics...
Postel said that the investigators hope to determine the nature and origin of the disease in the next two days...
...book solely about economics may wonder why the book is highly valued in so many different quarters, possessing a following that could almost be called a cult, and including such unlikely fans as Jerry Brown and Dean Rosovsky. The religious idiom Schumacher employs provides a clue to the origin of this deeper appreciation...
Before trysting with spectres, however, we should concede that even origin in an unusually unprincipled and anti-democratic government does not mean that black evil along crouches on the KTA gift. KTA, all Koreans and scholars of Korea, including myself, share a determination to see studies of Korean culture flourish independently of (though cooperatively with) Japanese and Chinese studies as is due the durable and unique culture of a nation paralleling Italy and Spain in recent importance. KTA officials have pressed this claim with dignity as well as funds; all with reck of cultural values and international peace should applaud...