Word: offshoot
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Schenectady, N.Y. Gati has found thinly disguised Jew baiting back in fashion in his native Hungary. One of the top-ranked soccer teams, MTK, was heavily financed by Jews in the 1930s before more than half of the Jewish community was murdered by the Nazis and their Hungarian offshoot, the Arrow Cross Party. Now, half a century later, the historical association lingers: when the team runs onto the field, the crowd sometimes shouts, "Goose merchants!" -- a barnyard variation on the odious stereotype of Jews as moneygrubbers. Fears Gati: "It is far from certain that post- Communist Eastern Europe will fully...
...success has spawned a network of allied organizations. Among them: the Pretoria-based Lawyers for Human Rights, which presses private law firms to take public-interest cases; the Black Lawyers' Association and its offshoot the Legal Education Center in Johannesburg; and the Institute for Applied Legal Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand. All participate in a thriving exchange of students and professors between the U.S. and South Africa. Says John Dugard, head of the Institute for Applied Legal Studies: "These days, even high-court judges are making study trips to the U.S. Our legal education system is looking more...
...male." Constanzo, who as a youth in South Florida reportedly practiced Santeria, the Caribbean voodoo, led the crazed rituals that accompanied the bloodletting. In the killing field, police found dozens of long candles as well as garlic, peppers and scores of half-burned cigars -- the accoutrements of an African offshoot of Santeria known as Palo Mayombe...
...band's name was an offshoot of a running dialogue in baby talk that Don carried on with his young son Anthony ("Anthony want pretzel?" "Not want."). According to Don, the name also "parallels the reaction to our music, which is 'What?' " No matter what its inspiration or explanation, Was (Not Was) is certainly an improvement on Fagenson (not Weiss), which, while never a consideration, would at least have been straightforward. Don Fagenson and David Weiss first met in eighth grade outside a gym teacher's office, where they awaited disciplining. Don's parents were both teachers. David's mother...
...State Department deports the editorial staff of Padan Aram, mistaking them for an offshoot of Islamic Jihad. The Undergraduate Council grants their petition for $500 for return airfare, and hails it as a sign of the council's new commitment to campus-wide publications...