Word: byproduct
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...legislature's failure to act was no accidental lapse but the byproduct of a political deadlock. At issue is the money likely to flow from any national health insurance program. Psychiatrists, who are M.D.s, are not eager to share federal dollars with nonmedical psychologists. Psychologists, in turn, are usually Ph.D.s and generally unenthusiastic about the flow of Government funds to other workers lower on the mental health totem pole: group therapy leaders, marriage counselors and psychiatric social workers...
...shift away from confrontation with Russia to its present policy of détente has also impelled many scholars to take a fresh look at the cold war, that byproduct of World War II. Many of the origins of the cold war sprang from decisions made during hostilities. The Allied decision to halt Patton on his dash toward Berlin, for example, isolated the German capital and made it a focal point of confrontation in the postwar era. Says History Professor Robert Dallek of U.C.L.A.: "We have to go back. Where we are now is a direct result of what evolved...
...also implicates diet, but the villain is protein. Methionine, an amino acid, is broken down by the body into homocysteine, a chemical that promotes atherosclerosis (or the buildup of plaque in the arteries) in lab animals. According to the theory, it is converted by vitamin B6 into an innocuous byproduct, but if there is a deficiency of B6, homocysteine piles up in the blood and causes atherosclerosis. In the view of the theory's proponents, Americans are vulnerable to heart disease because the protective vitamin, which is found in meats, fruits and vegetables is destroyed by cooking and canning...
...architectural and engineering firm named CUH2A to design a way to make full use of the 1.5 million B.T.U.s per hr. of the normally wasted heat from the computers. In place since last year, the CUH2A system employs a maze of pipes, coils and heat exchangers that allow the byproduct B.T.U.s to heat both air space and water in the original building and in a new 72,000-sq.-ft. annex. Though the system cost $90,000, it has been a boon...
That judgment is questionable, for public opposition to homosexuality hardly depends on the notion that gays have different kinds of orgasms. M & J are probably right, however, to suggest that one significant byproduct of their book will be better medical care for homosexuals, who have been badly treated by doctors. In the past, for instance, some doctors refused to give them rectal examinations for fear of causing arousal, a concern that has never been shown by gynecologists conducting vaginal examinations. Says Dr. Robert Kolodny, M & J's heir apparent at the research institute: "Documenting the similarity of physiological process gives...