Word: outgrowth
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...limits. The current upper bound to these funds is too low—a fact illustrated by George W. Bush’s, Howard Dean’s and Sen. John F. Kerry’s decisions to forego federal funds in their primaries. This proposal is a necessary outgrowth of the BCRA, since it will encourage the adoption of spending limits and reduce further candidates’ exposure to special interest money. The second proposal, a bill introduced by Sen. John S. McCain, R-Ariz., to reorganize the Federal Elections Commission (FEC), which is tasked with enforcing campaign finance...
Kerrigan says he's glad so many seniors are finding rejuvenation in scholarly work. "There were zero opportunities for my parents' generation," he says. "This is a new phenomenonthis sort of thing just simply didn't exist until recently. It's an outgrowth of lengthened life spans and intellectually engaged seniors...
Established last spring on the recommendation of the Committee to Address Sexual Assault at Harvard, the office is the outgrowth of over a year and a half of student-led agitation for the College to increase its focus on the issue...
...Conversations with Candidates” speaker series is an outgrowth of other events that have taken place at Kirkland over the past several years...
Arnold's contradictions--if that's what they are--are an outgrowth of his two formative experiences: an iron-heel upbringing in Austria followed by all the lubrications of sun and fun and wealth that we still call California. He was born in the Austrian village of Thal, near Graz, in 1947, in the struggling years right after World War II. His mother was a homemaker. His father was a policeman and an avid performer of military music, which may help explain why Schwarzenegger sometimes reminds you of a one-man oompah band...