Word: byproducts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...byproduct of this subtle attempt to pacify the American public by sheltering it from the harsh realities of life has producing a disturbing, though by no means novel, phenomenon: Americans prefer banal fantasies and mindless mush to unpleasant docudramas or serious theater. Consequently, when film and television producers make the rare attempt to simulate reality, they generally wind up depicting unconvincing, one-dimensional characters, creating predictable, non controversial situations, and producing stories like One Day at a Time or Happy Days...
...were reluctant to be critical, fearing his reach and influence." New York Correspondent Adam Zagorin was struck by the vitality of the multimillionaires he interviewed. "Stock Analyst Arnold Bernhard, for one, doubled his already considerable fortune when he was past 80," says Zagorin. "For such men, money is a byproduct of their creative drive, not of greed." Taylor agrees. "The people we are talking about," he says, "are far more interested in the companies they have built than in whether they are worth $5 million or $50 million. Given the vagaries of today's stock market, of course, that...
Next year what Dr. Fleming knew about the mold's bacteria-baiting byproduct appeared in the British Journal of Experimental Pathology. He had found out that the mold was some kind of Penicillium (from the Latin for pencil-the shape of the magnified mold). He named its by-product penicillin. Having made his great discovery, Dr. Fleming went on to other work. He was engaged in many other experiments-no scientist knows just which of his bottles contains the Nobel Prize...
...taste the air on windless days. With 575 workers, the 80-acre smelter, operated by Asarco since 1905, pumps some $35 million annually into the Tacoma, Wash., area economy. Unfortunately, the smelter pumps out arsenic, a deadly cancer-causing poison that is released directly into the atmosphere as a byproduct of copper refining. Last week EPA Administrator William D. Ruckelshaus announced details of a new federal air-quality standard for arsenic emissions. However, he left open a tough choice between a reduced but still clear risk of cancer for Tacoma residents and the loss of hundreds of jobs...
...service is a byproduct of A T & T's recent Government-mandated breakup: the deregulators ordered local telephone companies to give up their monopoly on their sponsored Dial-It services (time, weather, Dial-A-Joke and so on). High Society was one of 21 enterprises picked by lottery to get a piece of the New York Telephone action, and has since bought two more of the numbers from other lottery winners...