Word: byproduct
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WITH a mixture of awe, resentment and reverential hope appropriate for a demanding deity, scores of politicians are once again laying their treasure at the feet of television cameras in a biennial rite of electronic personality adjustment. Victory is the goal. The byproduct could be a constructive discussion of America's problems, but it has increasingly become a contest of bank accounts and artful contrivance...
PHILOSOPHERS of capitalism have always expected it to produce social progress, but usually as a byproduct of economic efficiency. In 1776, Adam Smith asserted that the businessman pursuing his own self-interest would be led "by an invisible hand" to do more good for society than if he consciously set out to do so. For almost two centuries, businessmen accepted the comfortable, generally sound idea that, by seeking wealth for themselves, they would create jobs, goods?and wealth ?for others. In modern America, owners and managers figured that their chief duty was to make the biggest profit they could...
Like the Paris student uprising two years ago, the U.S. student strikes over Cambodia and Kent State had a spontaneous and vivid byproduct: a sudden flood of impassioned graphic art, always polemical, often bitter, sometimes extraordinarily eloquent. Hundreds of thousands of protest posters poured out of campus workshops. One group at Stanford put together a collection from California campuses for a ten-day show in a Washington, D.C., church hall that ended last week. The students sold posters and lithographs for prices ranging from 500 to $70 to raise money for peace candidates...
...during intercourse. The bachelor scientist's experiment suggests that there is a release of androgens even with the anticipation of sex. "Even the presence of particular female company in the absence of intercourse, after a period of separation, usually caused an obvious increase in beard growth." As a byproduct of his research, the scientist also found that increased beard growth was associated with tension, mental fatigue, alcohol and increased shaving. On the other hand, it is apparently curtailed by heavy exercise and high temperatures...
Peterson concluded "the byproduct of diversity happens to be a fair amount of balance. There's a built-in honesty to our diversity...