Word: outgrowth
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Germany wants to expand its power to the East by slicing up potential rivals, and France fears an expansion of Germany's influence over Eastern Europe. The cause of the EC's hemming and hawing on the Yugoslavian question, then, is not some failure in coordination, but the natural outgrowth of deep-seated rivalries and insecurities within the Community...
Herschbach, who won the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1986, also noted that early developments in the field were an outgrowth of radar reseach at Harvard and MIT during World War II under the direction of two noted Harvard scientists...
...distinguished career became him like the leaving of it. Last week the Stanford University president took a step that has become all too rare in modern American life: he resigned with grace and dignity under pressure. His departure, effective at the end of the coming academic year, is the outgrowth of the festering scandal in which the university has been accused of overbilling the Federal Government as much as $200 million for research expenses during the 1980s. But there was no smoking gun, no dramatic new revelation, no public ultimatum to prompt his surprise abdication after 11 years in office...
...black network was a natural outgrowth of B.C.C.I.'s dubious and criminal associations. The bank was in a unique position to operate an intelligence- gathering unit because it dealt with such figures as Noriega, Saddam, Marcos, Peruvian President Alan Garcia, Daniel Ortega, contra leader Adolfo Calero and arms dealers like Adnan Khashoggi. Its original purpose was to pay bribes, intimidate authorities and quash investigations. But according to a former operative, sometime in the early 1980s the black network began running its own drugs, weapons and currency deals...
...1980s are characterized as the decade of greed, Greed with a capital G. Many of the savings and loans' problems were the outgrowth of extraordinary greed and chicanery by persons in the S&L industry. I call the S&L debacle a policy wreck. The people involved in it were motivated by greed and ambition, and we also had public officials, regulators, who were inattentive to their public post. Because of that inattention, we the taxpayers are going to have to pay that extraordinary amount...