Word: originating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proved that the underpasses are necessary, or that they will be sufficient, personal and aesthetic objections might lose some of their fore. But the MDC had not yet taken an "origin and destination" survey of the Drive's traffic, and has little idea of the effect of extending the Massachusetts Turnpike. It does not seem to have considered less radical alternatives to the underpass scheme, such as the relatively inexpensive system of traffic lights proposed by the Cambridge Planning Board. Even the most optimistic of experts--the MDC's consulting engineers--do not claim that underpasses alone will solve...
...Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland were reluctant partners with white-dominated Southern Rhodesia. Zambia, as Northern Rhodesia will be called after independence, will be a multiracial society in which, promises Kaunda, "the rule of law shall prevail and no individual is going to be victimized because of his country of origin...
...Dortmund, Krupp, Siemens and AEG have put up new plants to manufacture everything from turbogenerators to X-ray apparatus. Also sprouting are plants for electronics parts, TV sets, plate glass and clothing, as well as factories that turn out a cheap furniture; in honor of its city of origin, Germans have dubbed the furniture "Gelsenkirchner Baroque." Though the Ruhr gained fame for its contributions to the arsenals of war in times past, today it has no armaments industry to speak...
...sounding names-Kaspar, Melchior and Balthasar. In fact, the "kings" are as imaginary as their names. The Magi were simply astrologer-priests, possibly from Babylon, and their number is uncertain; early paintings of the Christmas scene show anywhere from two to seven of them. Scholars are divided about the origin and meaning of the star that lured them to Bethlehem. Many critics dismiss Matthew's account of it as pure myth; Smit believes that the star actually was a major conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn that would have been visible in Near Eastern skies from spring through fall...
...power to order firms or individuals not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, or national origin...