Word: by-product
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...by-product of his more restrained academic tastes, he said, was that they required less money...
Like the rough frontier males of the Old West eyeballing the first shipment of schoolmarms from back East, the porn industry (estimated annual U.S. sales: $8 billion) is beginning to reshape itself to accommodate women. The pressure is largely an unforeseen by-product of the VCR revolution. Males who once trekked to sleazy inner-city theaters began to take porn videotapes home. Wives and lovers started to make their opinions felt, and their voices began to affect the market...
Charges of clandestine arms sales to Iran have also touched a sore nerve in France, but for a different reason: the French are among the principal arms suppliers for Iraq, and as a by-product of that political tilt, the government has embargoed shipments to Iraq's neighboring enemy. France's largest munitions producer, Luchaire, allegedly secretly sold 450,000 artillery shells to Iran between 1983 and 1985. The deliveries were concealed behind manifests that named Brazil, Thailand and Portugal as destinations. The French government filed fraud charges against Luchaire more than a year ago, but since then little action...
...Study, the oldest of U.S. twin study groups, says the "mechanism for change is laid down the moment a child is conceived" and that the genes provide a "rough sketch of life." Some psychologists who stress the influence of genes on behavior often speak as if nurture were a by-product of nature. "All of us make our own environment," says Developmental Psychologist Sandra Scarr of the University of Virginia. Lykken makes the same point: "The environment molds your personality, but your genes determine what kind of environment you have, seek and attend to." Since the early 1960s, several twin...
...by-product of the acquisition binge has been a surge in insider trading. Only in recent weeks has Wall Street begun to recover from its worst- ever scandal, when last spring Dennis Levine, a managing director of the Drexel Burnham Lambert investment firm, admitted to using insider tips on takeover bids to trade in the shares of 54 companies. According to the Securities and Exchange Commission, the deals earned him $12.6 million in illegal profits. Levine pleaded guilty to four criminal counts and awaits sentencing. Eventually, four other Wall Streeters were tainted in the same scandal...