Word: outgrowth
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Such scientific sleuthing is routine for the CDC, which is to communicable disease what the FBI is to crime. Since it was established in 1946 as an outgrowth of a World War II agency set up to control malaria, the CDC has tracked down the sources of typhoid epidemics, traced a hepatitis outbreak in Michigan to a single bakery worker, and hunted down untold thousands of venereal-disease victims in need of treatment. Its efforts are essential, since infectious diseases remain one of the country's most troublesome health hazards. This year alone, they are expected to account...
...Donald P. Goldstein, divisional chief, said in an interview last week that the program is an "outgrowth of a growing awareness on the part of several doctors at Children's and at the Harvard Medical School of a need for gynecological care specifically geared to the adolescent...
...accepted as the best and most efficient by the nations that wield the most power. And this is the problem that faces those "backward, underdeveloped" nations of the third world for whom the superpowers are so willing to supply technological know-how: Western science and technology developed as an outgrowth of the social setting in which they were born: Western Europe. The importation of western science necessitates the importation of that system of training as well as of the very manner and setting, the value and priorities of the western scientific tradition...
American domination of South Vietnam, which continues now, is the outgrowth of these conditions. Major U.S. multinational investor-- particularly those associated with the Rockefeller-Chase Manhattan-Standard Oil circle-- have taken over or dominate regional trade associations, supra-national companies or allegedly neutral international development agencies which promote capitalist investment by resolving intra-capitalist conflicts, preparing feasability studies, and urging local ruling classes to provide incentives for investment...
...third police issue this year is the appointment of a civilian police commissioner--an outgrowth of the Lawrence Largey incident last fall--and civilian review board. Candidates endorsed by the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), the city's good government organization, and those on the Grass Roots Organization (GRO) slate, generally favor both measures...