Word: by-product
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...odors in surrounding buildings did not pose a threat to occupants, officials said, but were simply a by-product of the initial explosion...
...based not on Jodie's interests but Mary's, reasoning that her harsh life would only worsen as low levels of oxygen in her blood further destroyed her brain and that stopping delivery of Jodie's blood wouldn't be a positive act of killing but a passive by-product of saving Jodie, like withdrawing food and water from a terminally ill patient--which is legal in Britain and the U.S. under certain conditions...
...appealing new CD, Invincible Summer (Warner Bros.), slides easily into the groove that has proved to be the most comfortable fit between lang and her audience: the smoothly upbeat pop romanticism at which she excels. The theme of Summer, she told Billboard, is "Brazilian surf-pop" and is a by-product of her newfound infatuation with tropical music and the sun-kissed sounds of Southern California, where she recently relocated after living for several years on a farm outside Vancouver. Lang has said she owes much of the inspiration for Summer to several weeks spent listening to old Mamas...
...another by-product of the booming U.S. economy. Prenuptial agreements have long been used by couples who want to set down the terms of any future divorce before they walk down the aisle. But what happens when one spouse unexpectedly comes into great wealth after marriage and wants to alter the terms of a potential divorce settlement? Enter the postnuptial agreement. "Anytime somebody is going to come into substantial unforeseen wealth, that is going to give them the opportunity to examine their relationship," says John Mayoue, an Atlanta lawyer who says the proliferation of Internet millionaires--though they...
Fact: no one will be impressed with our technology. We will have corrected faulty eyesight by wearing magnifying lenses made of glass or plastic. We will have traveled by burning a petroleum by-product called gasoline. We will have produced children by having sexual intercourse. Ours, we will be told, was a primitive era. How can we expect to be taken seriously, we will be asked, when our high school physics class did not even teach string theory...