date back
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The cables date back to the months before Lockerbie and include notes of conversations between Giaka and Holt and two earlier CIA handlers.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
The most influential research was from Jagadeesh and Titman, two finance professors at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management, in1993, but earlier papers date back at least to the 1960s.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
Albania's land rights issue stems from its communist past that banned individual land ownership, further muddled by customs that date back to the Ottoman era.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
But Cuban blackouts and brownouts date back decades.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
Modern drug forfeiture laws date back to 1970, when Congress passed the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
