Word: outgrowth
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Students sometimes complain that visiting professors raise their grading standards when teaching at Harvard, an outgrowth of the common perception that Harvard students are fundamentally more intellectual than students at other schools...
Ethnic studies is an outgrowth of the trend in recent decades toward multiculturalism, or the belief that only by studying and preserving the disparate cultures that comprise this country can we construct a fair and just society. Most intellectuals, and indeed most citizens, are in favor of a fair and just society. The problem, of course, is in the details; what is fair and just, and how do we achieve...
...this is a natural outgrowth of the TIME/CNN poll and CNN's treatment of TIME's Man of the Year," notes Time Inc. editor-in-chief Norman Pearlstine. "But it is also very much in the spirit of what Time Warner and TBS (parent of CNN) were seeking when we signed the definitive agreement to merge last fall...
Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III, who attended the peace vigil, agreed. "It was very moving, especially since it involved both SAS and Hillel," he said. "It is an outgrowth of this extraordinary reaction to the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, and is another example of the push for peace...
...rhetoric. At a recent anti-peace rally, a manakin of Rabin, clad in an SS uniform, was hanged in effigy. The rhetoric on the Israeli extreme right has been so strident and so vicious of late that it is difficult to construe the murder as anything but the direct outgrowth of an increasingly poisonous political culture...