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Word: byproducts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...could be a byproduct of détente. What we really want in the end, whether you do it step by step or an overall agreement, is equitable, viable peace, and the Arabs and the Israelis living side by side in a relationship such as we have in Western Europe or other parts of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Toward a Ford Doctrine? | 7/28/1975 | See Source »

Moreover, the danger keeps mounting. At the Geneva meeting, British Diplomat David Ennals pointed out that in 1970 there were 101 known nuclear power reactors in the world; by 1978 the total will have risen to at least 329, all of them producing as a byproduct deadly plutonium, which can substitute for uranium in making atomic weapons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMAMENTS: The Mushrooming Nuclear Menace | 7/7/1975 | See Source »

This was to be a Byproduct Nation, made much less by people hoping to glorify the land of their grandparents than by people working to provide a decent, prosperous life for their grandchildren. European nationalism hallowed the past; this new American nationalism hallowed the future. The very same features that had made the Revolutionary generation wonder whether there could ever be one nation across the continent-the vastness of the land, the diversity of landscapes and climates, the conglomeration of peoples, the mixture of skills and traditions, the variety of religion-finally proved to be the nation's peculiar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bicentennial Essay: America: Our Byproduct Nation | 6/23/1975 | See Source »

...must have the courage to remain a Byproduct Nation. We must have the courage to be concrete, to specify our projects while still refusing to fence in our national hopes. We must refuse the so lace of ideology and crusading dogmas. While others talk of National Purpose, we must remain a nation in quest, believing that for us there can only be national purposes, that these are newly revealed to every generation, and that our efforts must be devoted no less to discovery than to fulfillment. We must not forget our oldest tradition - that our New World is a reservoir...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bicentennial Essay: America: Our Byproduct Nation | 6/23/1975 | See Source »

Such sinking, called subsidence by geologists, can occur naturally. In river deltas, for example, as muddy sediments pile up, their weight often grows great enough to press down the land beneath them. Subsidence can also take place on a larger scale as a byproduct of the creeping movements of the giant, continent-sized plates that make up the earth's surface. Whatever the cause, natural subsidence is extremely slow and almost imperceptible. It is subsidence caused by humans that is taking place with alarming speed in many parts of the U.S. and elsewhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Another Kind of Depression | 6/2/1975 | See Source »

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