Word: outgrowth
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...technical fact, the transfer of the reactor and 13,000 grams of enriched uranium will take place under the auspices of the International Atomic Energy Agency, of which both the U.S. and Yugoslavia are members. The agency, an outgrowth of Dwight Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace proposals of 1953, is supposed to make sure that the reactor is used only for peaceful purposes. The transfer was first approved 13 months ago by John McCone, then chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, and was reaffirmed a few weeks ago when the AEC signed an agreement to supply the uranium fuel...
...trend is a logical outgrowth of the deskless office. Since most executives want to show that they are policy thinkers who leave routine paperwork to underlings, desks have tended to disappear. Furthermore, explains Arnold Maremont, president of Chicago's automotive products firm, the Maremont Corp.: "A man sitting behind a desk is a man on horseback. He becomes a dictator." The same desire for informality applies in the board room. Abandoning the austere, paneled room built around a massive, no-nonsense board table, directors of more and more firms sit on upholstered chairs and comfortable couches, chat over...
Skis & Soles. For Shepard, the challenging curriculum seemed a natural outgrowth of the life that he likes to lead. Born in East Derry, N.H. (pop. 200), in 1923, he is the son of a retired Army colonel, but he chose the Naval Academy instead of West Point, was commissioned an ensign in 1944, and served on a destroyer in the Atlantic until the end of World War II. Everything he did, he did with a personal flair. When he wangled orders to flight school, he became so impatient with the pace of service routine that he got himself a private...
...occur to him that chaos in itself may represent a very positive and fertile current of life. For the people of the Old Testament, especially in the creation story, the question was not: 'Why is there chaos?' but rather: 'Why is there order?' For them, order was the outgrowth of daily living . . . The unique function of man, in their view, is to live in close, creative touch with chaos, and thereby experience the birth of order . . . Surprisingly enough, modern psychotherapists share this ancient knowledge...
...founded the School in 1924 as an outgrowth of the Harvard-M.I.T. School for Health Officers, established in 1913, and was the School's first dean. He received an honorary degree from the University...