Word: byproducts
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...Radcliffe Graduate Studies Center, a byproduct of the restructuring, will offer career programming services similar to those now offered by RCS, but will not have fee-for-service career counseling...
...Pyle has struck a vein of woe. Shortly after moving to the town of Sutter Creek, she learned that the gray "sand" that whole neighborhoods sit on is actually mine tailings, the grit left over after gold has been extracted from the ground. In those tailings is a toxic byproduct of the mining process: arsenic, in concentrations up to 50 times higher than the level deemed safe by the government. Now Pyle finds that her house is virtually worthless; no one will buy it, and no bank will write a mortgage. "I feel trapped and stifled," says Pyle...
...accomplishing in the '50s what Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein did in the '20s: translating the black music of church halls and barrooms into sophisticated songs that were at once true to the original spirit and acceptable to a mainstream audience. For L&S, that acceptability was a fluky byproduct of their urge to write rhythm and blues for the "race music" market. They didn't need to dilute their material for white listeners: the mainstream diverted itself to reach their fertile backwater...
...Since the 1960s, the number of Americans expressing trust in Washington has dropped from around 70% to near 20%. This is commonly interpreted as a judgment against the growing power of special-interest lobbyists. But it could also be a reaction against the increasingly abject spinelessness of politicians, a byproduct of the very same trend. Indeed, the one clear exception to the number's downward drift are the Reagan years. Aaron says, "Even Democrats like me, who believed Ronald Reagan was a malign force, respected him, because, damn it, there were things he really stood...
...dead weight on the Council is far from random. In fact, it is concentrated in the cluster of members who served on last year's Council. The cause, I believe, is not so much "seniorities," as UC President Carey Gabay suggested, as "apathy;" an apathy that is an understandable byproduct of serving on a Council that seemed to accomplish too little and bicker too much. With the election on Gabay and Garza in the fall of 1993, the UC witnessed a welcome changing of the guard...