Word: originates
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year's candidates and 33 percent of winners were women. This constitutes a minor improvement compared with last year's council, which was 28 percent female. There was also minor improvement in the number of Asian-Americans on the Council, although the body still has few members of Hispanic origin. The council's black membership has remained relatively strong. Despite its limited success, we applaud Rawlins' campaign to further diversify the council's candidate pool...
...student left a "Heaven and Hell" party around 1 a.m. on Sunday morning, a dart board of unknown origin fell from a fifth-floor window and hit a Harvard student in the head as she stood outside of Eliot House's Centry...
Very few books change the course of history: Karl Marx's Das Kapital, Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species and Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations come to mind. And then there was Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. Published in 1962, it embedded a message about the folly of trying to conquer nature within an exposition about the dangers of pesticides to animal and human life. Despite the formidable opposition of the chemical industry, which ridiculed Carson as an overly emotional woman unqualified to judge the health effects of compounds like DDT, her thorough research and exquisite ability...
...large part from the national pride established over the centuries during which the British Empire was bringing the blessings of parliamentary democracy and overcooked vegetables to vast areas of the world--a pride leading naturally to the assumption that even though the royal family may be essentially German in origin, the currency should be purely English...
...fund student-initiated graduation celebrations," said Winston Doby, vice chancellor of student affairs, "but we cannot give funds to any group that gives preference based on race, color, gender, ethnicity or national origin...