Word: originated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kind by a state police department, brings to light a controversy that has been brewing quietly in the law- enforcement community for more than a year. Across the U.S., dozens of cops who work with radar guns day in and day out have developed cancers of suspicious origin. Two California troopers who regularly rested the gun on their lap developed cancers on their legs. Another, who jammed the gun between his legs, got testicular cancer. Several officers have developed rare cancers of the eye and eyelid -- apparently from operating the radar units too close to the head...
...usual finding, they probably won't be able to make any conclusions about its origin. If Horowitz and his team are especially unlucky, they'll find out that they've tracked a "mundane" object like a satellite. Their "first discovery," back in June, 1983, was an "incredibly big signal... the right profile, but not the right frequency." It took them about 30 minutes to figure out that...
...seemed "torn between their desires and what makes sense," as a senior Italian diplomat put it. Francois Mitterrand dearly wants a distinct West European "defense identity," but the French President has a Bismarckian distaste for the Balkans. "These countries," he fairly snorted two weeks ago, "have been at the origin of several great wars into which we were then dragged...
Many first-years were puzzled as to the meanings and creation of their own intramural team's name. When asked about the origin of the Canaday A "Fuzzy Ducks," resident Daniel White '95 answered, "I don't know what the hell a fuzzy duck...
...systems failure, the origin of which is not known, cost the telephone office approximately six to eight hours work...