Word: byproduct
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...exchange student in Peru at the time of the 1954 CIA-backed coup in Guatemala. Small wonder that Bush retains a hawkish can-do faith in covert action; Dukakis is a multilateralist keenly aware of the damage to American prestige and fair-play values that can be the permanent byproduct of unwise subversion and military intervention...
...emerging genre of movies that are cinematic representations of the ultra-conservative Id. This new genre usually features an actor such as Schwarzenegger, Stallone or some other symbol of the American y-chromosome bounding about blasting anyone with an accent or a darker skin tone. Commando is such a byproduct of political isolationism and flat-out hate...
...contact with faculty--be it through office hours, informal chats or even meals--officials this year took several steps to remedy the situation. One move was starting a program providing free tickets to students wishing to invite a faculty member to dinner, chez Harvard Food Services. If as a byproduct, officials believed, more faculty members became acquainted with students and the Houses, then perhaps the anxiety-gap could be narrowed...
Guidotti, working with Schechter, suspects that eugenol--or some byproduct created when it is burned--immobilizes infection-fighting cells, allowing viruses and bacteria already present in the lungs to run amuck. The other possibilities, he says, are that eugenol or another ingredient has a direct toxic effect or that it triggers an acute allergic reaction. Last month the American Lung Association issued a preliminary warning about clove cigarettes, and the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta plan to look for further evidence of kretek-induced illness...
...that the United States makes itself more vulnerable to extreme or symbolic attacks by terrorists in foreign nations depending on the degree to which citizens of that nation perceive the U.S. as acting against their interests. What Americans have not yet grasped is that terrorism is often a necessary byproduct of misguided foreign policy. Because the United States has acted carelessly, even recklessly, as a world power. Americans abroad have become ready targets for anti-American or anti-imperialist sentiment...