Word: by-product
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...days later after a farcical series of "yes, he's dead," "no, he's alive" declarations and denials--drawn out, most likely, as various government factions fought over who should succeed him. American officials say they think the shooting was the result of an internal power struggle, a by-product of the country's bloody civil war. Some African analysts finger the Angolans, who were frustrated with Kabila's leadership. There was a glimmer of hope in the news: Western diplomats think Kabila's death may encourage the warring factions to seek peace...
...nuclear-industry by-product...
...Depleted uranium is attractive to armorers because of its high ratio of mass to bulk, which gives it the ability to pierce heavy armor. The by-product of the fuel-enrichment process used by nuclear power stations, it contains fairly low doses of radiation, but is acknowledged to carry some risk of cancer and other ailments if directly ingested, inhaled or absorbed through cuts. That knowledge, and the circumstantial link between high rates of illness and service in territories where NATO has fired large amounts of depleted-uranium ordnance, is enough to have European NATO members demanding further discussion over...
...parts. One and one make three. A late 19th century engineer, Wilhelm Maybach, working for Daimler, puts together the newly invented perfume spray with the newly discovered gasoline and comes up with the carburetor. In 1823 Scottish chemist Charles Macintosh, working with a throwaway coal tar by-product, naphtha (used to clean out dyeing vats), stumbles across the fact that it will liquefy rubber. So he spreads the rubber between layers of cloth and invents the raincoat...
...estimate of civil rights attorney Penda Hair of the Washington-based Advancement Project, "hundreds, maybe thousands" of votes were affected, more than enough to have swung a razor-thin election. Whether all this was the result of a racist plot or a by-product of insensitive police work and the incompetence of precinct workers remains to be investigated by the Justice Department. But in a sense, any skulduggery the feds discover will be beside the point, a mere footnote to the triumphant story of how this year the black vote came of age, thanks largely to Jesse Jackson. Lord knows...