Word: outgrowth
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...globe. The U.S. no longer possesses, if it ever did, the ability to impose unilaterally its standards on the rest of the world. For developing nations to choose to implement such standards, the measures must be seen more as a means to improve their own welfare than as an outgrowth of American self-interest...
...unorthodox, even revolutionary thesis, at a time when most scholars assumed that Chinese communism was an outgrowth of the Soviet empire...
Despite the efforts of the Living Wage Campaign at Harvard, formed in January as an outgrowth of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM), University officials have yet to reach a compromise with student activists or the council. PSLM members said the city's latest move should prompt Harvard to follow suit...
...little more than a month ago, the council adopted an order urging Harvard to comply voluntarily to provide its employees with a living wage of at least $10 per hour. Despite the efforts of the Living Wage Campaign at Harvard, formed in January as an outgrowth of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM), University officials have yet to reach a compromise with student activists or the council. PSLM members said the city's latest move should prompt Harvard to follow suit...
...This is an outgrowth of the information age," says TIME writer Adam Cohen, "and in our society it is the price of the First Amendment right of free speech." It is a price that the courts may be increasingly asked to reevaluate, however. "When speech actively advocates violence," says Cohen, "there can be a finding of liability," as an Oregon federal jury determined earlier this month in the case of an antiabortion site called the Nuremberg Files. The proliferation of hate groups suggests that the nation may face a growing docket of such hate litigation -- and a new round...