Word: byproduct
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...abortion is one of the clearest and oldest moral preachings of the Roman Catholic Church; it dates back to the 1st century. The destruction of the fetus, the church teaches, is a morally indefensible attack on human life. The only exception is "indirect abortion," or abortion as an incidental byproduct of a necessary attempt to save the mother's life. Ectopic pregnancy and cancer of the uterus are grounds for indirect abortion. Rape and incest are not exceptions, because the fetus conceived has the same right to life as any other fetus...
Beale says that the statue is in unusually good condition for a 100-year-old sculpture, a "happy byproduct" of the attempts to keep a step ahead of vandals...
Footloose is probably the most sophisticated example yet of the prominent role that musical sound tracks are playing in the marketing of Hollywood movies. Music used to be merely an afterthought or, at best, a happy byproduct of the movie. But the success of Saturday Night Fever in 1977, with its hit Bee Gees score, taught Hollywood a valuable lesson: rock sound tracks can be not only big sellers but big promotional tools for the films they embellish. The lesson was resoundingly driven home with last year's Flashdance, whose album (4.9 million copies sold...
...proposed redeployment would leave intact air and naval forces, as well as intermediate-range missiles, so long as Europe wants them. A useful byproduct of the process would be a systematic re-evaluation of the existing inventory of very short-range tactical nuclear weapons, a legacy of three decades of ad hoc decisions; these weapons now represent at one and the same time an increment to deterrence and the greatest danger of unintended nuclear war because, being deployed so far forward, they are unusually subject to the exigencies of battle...
...byproduct of this subtle attempt to pacify the American public by sheltering it from the harsh realities of life has producing a disturbing, though by no means novel, phenomenon: Americans prefer banal fantasies and mindless mush to unpleasant docudramas or serious theater. Consequently, when film and television producers make the rare attempt to simulate reality, they generally wind up depicting unconvincing, one-dimensional characters, creating predictable, non controversial situations, and producing stories like One Day at a Time or Happy Days...