Word: offshoot
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...Cool Site of the Year awards are an offshoot of the Cool Site of the Day, which began rewarding excellence on the Web in 1994, making it one of the earliest arbiters of good taste on the Internet. The awards are given out in 15 categories, ranging from best bookstore to best zine. The nominees are chosen by a nominating committee, and the actual awards are chosen by popular vote. "It?s completely about the people?s choice," said Mike Corso, president of C Notes Interactive, which owns the awards. "We respect immensely the people who visit the site...
...offshoot of the Undergraduate Admissions Council, which uses student volunteers to help the admissions office reach prospective applicants, UMRP engages minority undergraduates directly in Harvard's efforts to woo minorities...
...National Partnership for Reinventing Government, an offshoot of the office of Vice President Al Gore '69, has asked 13 colleges to join in the pilot program, which is slated to begin shortly after Thanksgiving but will not include Harvard...
...Party. Under ordinary circumstances, Hormel's nomination would have sailed through the Senate with little notice. But Hormel, 65, is gay and a prominent advocate of gay rights, a background that drew the scrutiny and disapproval of groups like the Traditional Values Coalition and the Family Research Council, an offshoot of Dobson's Focus on the Family. After clearing the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last fall, Hormel's nomination has been on hold. It will stay there, majority leader Trent Lott told TIME last week, for "the foreseeable future...
Breggin's address was sponsored by the Harvard Student Pugwash group, an offshoot of the international Pugwash organization, which promotes the study of the ethics of science and technology...