Word: unforeseen
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...Britain and the U.S., the great age of quantification had begun. An unforeseen consequence of industrialized democracy had been the mammoth increase in the measurement and survey of all sorts of things. Galton relished this new flood of data--"Whenever you can, count" was his motto--and eventually became absorbed in studying the mathematical distribution of what he called "natural ability" among a sample of British subjects. Galton thought natural ability could be tracked down by reading the biographical sketches of eminent Britons in handbooks and dictionaries. When he did so, he discovered that a disproportionate number of these worthies...
There is an unforeseen consequence to all this superficial self-congratulation that only surfaces when we are served a salad that is all tomatoes or all lettuce. We are confronted by our ignorance in a meal such as this; we don't even know where to start eating and so lay our fork down next to the bowl and stare uncomfortably as the vegetables talk among themselves. They speak of things, shared experiences and hidden flavors we never knew existed. In our insecurity, we detect an angry stare from the tomatoes toward our untomato-ness, and we shrink away from...
...soft-drink company in Russia? For every buck you put up, the government, in the form of something called the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), puts up two bucks. Best of all, if the deal goes sour because of a crumbling economy, currency devaluation or some other unforeseen event, you won't have to pay back the government's share...
...what? Most Republicans now concede that any effort to unseat Clinton will almost certainly fail, barring a Republican landslide in the November midterm election or some unforeseen bombshell from independent counsel Ken Starr. Even if the House votes articles of impeachment against the President, and even if the Republicans pick up as many as five seats in the Senate this fall, they will still be seven short of what the Senate needs to convict Clinton and remove him from office. "Do the math," says a Republican Senate aide. "Clinton may have to go through the disgrace of articles...
...there's always a possibility that superaspirins could provoke some unforeseen side effects. Although clinical trials haven't yet revealed any problems, in many ways the real experiment doesn't begin until doctors start writing prescriptions for hundreds of thousands of people. The trouble with Duract, for example, showed up only after patients took the painkiller for several weeks--much longer than most subjects in the clinical trial. Researchers don't expect the same sort of trouble from COX-2 inhibitors. But they won't know for sure until long after the first million arthritis sufferers reach for a bottle...