Word: byproduct
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...even an afterthought of empire, but rather, a byproduct of the empire's collapse. Its first military use was as a secret Royal Navy supply base (code-named Port T) during World War II. Abandoned after the war, it was resurrected in 1957 as a substitute for an R.A.F. staging base in Ceylon, which had come under political attack. It is a supposedly vital relay station in Britain's high-frequency military radio link, and is zeroed in on the Skynet military communications satellite. But Gan does not have attack capability. Its only missiles are small weather rockets...
...full-time inspectors have been hired to check pollution in Tokyo's 10,000 factories. When a swimmer died recently in the Sumida River-which Tokyoites have renamed the "River of Death"-an autopsy showed that he had not drowned, but suffocated from inhaling methane gas, a byproduct of sludge and pollutants...
Free Sewage. In presenting its case, Clean Fuels stresses potential economic benefits: new jobs both in the refinery and in byproduct industries, bigger municipal tax revenues, lower fuel prices. In addition, says Company President David Scoll, a former admiralty lawyer, possible oil spills will be contained during loading and unloading by bubbling air curtains and booms. To avert collisions, tankers will use special guidance systems. The refinery will be equipped with antipollution devices. As a bonus, Clean Fuels has even offered to treat Searsport's sewage-free...
Most of the problem of dependency in America today is the byproduct of a defunct system of Southern agriculture. It has been a kind of fly-now, pay-later arrangement, only the bills come due not in Mississippi but in Chicago. A lot of persons in Chicago ask, reasonably enough, in what way they are responsible and why they should...
Black Comedy. Running on so, Lennon proves once again that artists like politicians, are best judged by their works, not by what they say in public An excellent byproduct of Lennon's recent wallow in self-pity is his latest record John Lennon Plastic Ono Band (Apple), one of the most fascinatingly dour LPs in rock history. Part psychoanalytical printout, part notes from a Dostoevskian underground, part black comedy, the music has a morbid, Mussorgsky-like power that makes it hard to believe that its author once wrote I Want to Hold Your Hand. Working Class Hero a relentless dirge...