Word: originality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Being of Nigerian origin, I do greatly identify with good efforts initiated by any African head of state to promote national pride, unity and economic growth...
...energy crisis in the winter of 1974-75--this time, an impending shortage of coal-produced electricity instead of Arab-imported oil--poses most of the same threats to a sluggish economy its predecessor did, but fewer inscrutable mysteries. It is not foreign in origin. It is not contingent upon (or confused by) questions of finding new fuel sources. Most experts agree that America sits upon coal seams extensive enough to meet its needs for 80 to 100 years. It has a definite point of origin--November 12, the Tuesday when 120,000 coal-mining members of the United Mine...
...return of breathing and consciousness, the transition from silence to free speech-will also prove a difficult and slow process, and just as painful because of the gulf of utter incomprehension that will suddenly yawn between fellow countrymen, even those of the same generation and same place of origin, even members of the same close circle...
...when prices for Bordeaux reds had soared in a speculative binge. He also bought quantities of Bordeaux whites, whose prices were not rising. One odd loophole in the government's appellation controlée regulations was that official papers for wines were marked by region of origin but not by color. Bert was accused of switching the papers for the two batches of wines by stamping blanc on the Midi documents and rouge on those for the Bordeaux. This meant that he had to sell the Bordeaux white wines as even cheaper Midi whites. But he could also peddle...
...trial, a government fraud inspector testified that the house of Cruse had also stretched real Bordeaux by mixing it with low-class Midi red. A truck driver who frequently drove from Bert's warehouse to the Cruse cellars admitted that he had switched papers to disguise the origin of the cheap red Midi wine. Still another witness was a lawyer for le fisc (the French income tax office), who asked that the court fine the defendants $18 million for cheating the government...