Word: byproduct
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...projected plant, he will use uranium supplied by AEC, charge AEC a fee for turning it into plutonium. The tremendous heat, now a waste byproduct of the process, will be used to run a steam generating plant. By charging a fee for making the plutonium, Thomas thinks that the cost of producing electricity can be brought down to current commercial rates. By using the cheap electric power to manufacture chemicals, he thinks Monsanto can afford to make plutonium at a lower cost than in AEC's own plants...
...from withering, the Fitzgerald legend is livelier today than at any time since its hero's death. Unlike many literary "revivals," the interest in his books is real, not the byproduct of a publisher's promotion. At literary shindigs nowadays the Fitzgerald worshipers generally outnumber the Hemingway and Faulkner fans. Budd Schulberg's The Disenchanted, largely a fictional pry into Fitzgerald's private life, has sold more than 250,000 copies...
...peddling the byproduct of his work as a $15,000-a-year servant of the people, the Senator had not actually broken any laws. Congressmen often get fees for making speeches and writing magazine articles. Members of Congress are no more limited in moneymaking ventures than other citizens, except that they may not take fees for lobbying or dealing with Government agencies. The rest is up to their moral judgment. McCarthy had raised a question of propriety-and his fancy author's fee was enough to raise eyebrows...
...threat to fix their gas prices, but what they feared more was that FPC would use the authority it won over gas as a lever to try to declare the whole oil industry a public utility-and thus control oil prices and profits also. (Since gas is a byproduct of oil development, the big oil companies are also big gas producers.) The result was that many of the big producers refused to sell gas to the interstate pipelines. They pumped the gas back into the ground, sold it only within the state, or let it go to waste...
...immediately for productive work. More & more of their early years can be invested in education-which makes them more productive later on. In the 19th Century few children went beyond grammar school. Now some 40% of U.S. children go through high school, about 7% graduate from college. One important byproduct: more trained personnel for the research laboratories that are the reproductive organs of our technical culture...