Word: by-product
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...can’t tell the difference between art and tasteless garbage, who’d tell you the Mona Lisa would be greatly improved if she were covered in horseshit. Eminem represents corrupt and demented form of “art.” His success is the by-product of a troubled generation’s lack of taste...
...by-product of the roadway work in the Quad this summer, Cabot House received a number of brand-new bike racks that have eased the overcrowding...
...been "a card-carrying underearner." For her new book, Stanny interviewed 150 women whose annual earnings ranged from $100,000 to $7 million to distill the secrets of their success. Stanny says that the high earners were almost universally passionate about their jobs; the money was just a fortunate by-product. The women became successful by brushing off the gender bias and sexual harassment that other women experience and plunging ahead. Stanny believes some women unwittingly collude with bosses who pay them poorly; they have a "high tolerance for low pay" because they "believe in the nobility of poverty...
Setting aside conspiracy theorists, many on this side of the pond see our current situation as an almost inevitable by-product of a world increasingly polarized into “haves” (the West) and “have-nots” (the Third World). Globalization has both exacerbated this polarization, and educated these latter day sans culottes of the Third World into an increasingly hostile posture towards the West. For many, that means principally the United States. In extremis, that hostility can be transmogrified into proactive terrorism...
...used to extract hydrogen from water molecules. In the future, hydrogen could be stored in tanks, and when energy is needed, the gas could be run through a fuel cell, a device that combines hydrogen with oxygen. The result: pollution-free electricity, with water as the only by-product. Already fuel-cell buses, cars and small generators are being tested. Eventually, some visionaries say, fuel cells placed in individual buildings could replace many of today's giant electric plants. But that will not happen unless the technology is refined and the cost drops. "A hydrogen economy," says Alan Nogee...