Word: outgrowth
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...William Boteler of Baltimore, who went to Bolivia a dozen years ago, feels that continual incidents of police torture and murder are an outgrowth of distorted family values. "You have people who don't possess values of responsibility and respect for others," he says. "The threat the military government sees is that we are raising the consciousness of the people, that the people have a right to a voice and vote in their own destiny." During the Bolivian dictatorship's current reign of terror, a number of priests have been beaten up or jailed, and others have fled...
...study is an outgrowth of a Data Resources Ine. report which showed the state's 79 colleges and universities added $2.3 billion to the state's economy. That report was released earlier this year when state legislators were considering a bill that would have removed property tax exemptions for universities...
...vigorously opposed running the Screw ad. But I also oppose the majority's sweeping and rigidly determinist condemnation of advertising as an outgrowth of capitalism. Of course exploitation of women is to be deplored. Perhaps for porno to be eradicated citizens will have to be taught or forced to be free, but advertising columns are as important as editorial columns in the educational process...
...military jurist and author who prosecuted all war crimes trials in the British zone of Germany after World War II, and resigned as assistant judge advocate general in 1954 in order to publish his controversial book The Scourge of the Swastika, in which he condemned Nazi atrocities as an outgrowth of the master-race doctrine; in Hastings, England...
...postwar business dynamo, Japan shows that a large and complex society can function smoothly in a tumultuous world environment if people are willing to make some compromises in order to obtain larger objectives. Though the way Japan manages its affairs is, in many respects, the unique outgrowth of the country's historical experience, certain of its lessons can be applied in industrial economies everywhere, and particularly...