Word: upshot
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...Over a period of several years, Harvard fell considerably short of the strict legal requirements designed to reduce the diversion of legitimate drugs to illegal uses," U.S. Attorney Donald K. Stern said in a statement. "The upshot was thefts of drugs, inaccurate inventories, sloppy storage and improper distribution of drugs to unregistered sites...
...Judaism. Just as keeping kosher reminds me who I am every time I eat something, my name constantly reminds me and others that I'm Jewish. It's an undeniable fact; true to my parents' wishes, the sheer obviousness of my religion makes it a non-issue. One upshot of the difficulty non-Jews have with my name is the comfort I feel around Jews. After a summer of spelling my name, the visit of an Israeli cousin who could spit it out in full guttural glory was soothing. People who say my name right on the first...
...recent years, China has become the world's largest importer of American wheat. One reason is modernization. As Asian countries like China, Japan, Vietnam and Korea industrialize, less land is cultivated for grain crops, and the populations begin to adopt Western-style diets rich in meat and eggs. The upshot: grain supplies drop and prices rise. "What this may mean for American consumers," says TIME's Tom Curry, "Is that, even though the grain itself is only 18 cents of the $3.39 retail price they pay for corn flakes, they may soon find themselves paying more for chicken, pork, soft...
...teasing the voter impulse to ignore the pack and start over. He is luring voters from the ranks of weak Dole supporters, undecided voters and even some from Phil Gramm's camp. But Forbes is especially appealing to the upscale and the socially moderate. That is the upshot of the second installment of the TIME/CNN Election Monitor, a poll that returns periodically to the same large sample of people to ask them about their shifting view of the candidates and issues. For this one, 1,117 registered voters who identified themselves earlier as Republicans or as leaning that way were...
...upshot: a business expansion that is at some risk of dying of old age (it began in March 1991) needs more stimulus than the Fed is giving it. Or so say many economists. Last week's tweak is "too little, too late," argues Allan Meltzer, professor of political economy at Carnegie-Mellon University. Says Irwin Kellner, chief economist of Chemical Bank: "A quarter point will help a wee bit, but it's going to take more than that to get this economy going." One signpost: house sales lately have been flat, despite a drop in mortgage rates...