Word: originated
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...heads in the U.S., the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control banned all imports containing Asian hair. Last month the U.S. Government sharpened the ban by prohibiting all wig imports from five European countries, including Italy, unless the wigs were accompanied by certificates of origin...
...chemical and cement complexes, and a coal mine which has been started in the middle of a Communist-dominated area. These industries are examples of what Thai calls "more active participation of the people in economic development." Two of the three spinning mills are owned by businessmen of Chinese origin; the paper factories include American and Italian interests, while the chemical company is government owned...
ASTRONOMERS, physicists and even philosophers the world over are engaged these days in nothing less than a reappraisal of the origin and nature of the universe, largely because of the work of the man who appears on this week's cover. Dutch-born Professor Maarten Schmidt of California Institute of Technology is the astronomer who found the key to quasars (quasi-stellar radio sources), those bright, distant and mysterious objects that have been baffling astronomers. Now Schmidt and other scientists are using quasars to unlock some of nature's most difficult enigmas. Perhaps not since Galileo...
Most of this odd burden accrues from a key provision of the twelve-year-old Food for Peace program, allowing the U.S. to sell surplus farm commodities to dollar-poor countries for the recipients' own currency, which remains in the nations of origin. About 20% of the cash is earmarked for U.S. use, and part of this is absorbed by routine operations such as maintaining embassies and aid missions. The other 80%, though U.S.-owned, is reserved for the recipient nation's benefit...
...hard to know where to begin in lauding the Cornell players, though tracing their origin is no trick--they're all from Canada...