Word: byproduct
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...deplore "the overt sexual implications of the dance." But some German intellectuals defend the twist. It is, says one Munich psychiatrist, "a proper cure for working off frustrations." And a psychiatrist in Berlin, where the cold war takes the rap for all sorts of aberrations, sees it as a byproduct of an anxious age. ''The twist craze," says he, "can be attributed to Atomangst...
...PROFITS. "The idea that the highest morality brings the lowest profit does not necessarily apply. If we concentrate on giving the consumer what he needs at a price favorable to him, profits roll in as a byproduct...
...bloodstream riches of dearborn F. Parker, 51, a food processing supervisor, are a byproduct of disease. Last spring Parker reported to Fort Worth's Carter Blood Center complaining of weakness. Physicians found that he had hemochromatosis-a rare condition caused by excessive iron absorption through the intestines into the blood. Some of the iron had deposited in Parker's liver and pancreas, contributing to cirrhosis and a mild case of diabetes...
Building Up Production. At Carter, while drawing blood from Parker to treat the hemochromatosis, physicians made use of the serum byproduct in their laboratory. This gave rise to a proposal to give him more Rh-positive blood and stimulate anti-D production. Such a course was dangerous. Second transfusions of Rh-positive blood into negative patients frequently lead to severe incompatibility reactions, and sometimes death. But only a minute amount of Rh-positive blood need be transfused-a factor that favored the attempt. They put it up to the patient. "Go ahead," said Parker, "if this is going to help...
...boiling melting pot, mixing retired Ohioans with young Michiganders, New Englanders with Hoosiers. The state now boasts not only the world's largest shuffleboard club (in St. Petersburg) but its largest missile testing ground (at Cape Canaveral), and air-conditioned jails for its increasing criminal population, one undesirable byproduct of growth...