Word: offshoot
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...street bombings and slashed throats are mostly the work of the Armed Islamic Group (G.I.A.), a savage offshoot of the Islamic Salvation Front. As the war progresses, more moderate groups within the Islamic Front have been overshadowed by the G.I.A., whose dramatic hijacking of an Air France flight last December fanned fears that Algeria's war could destabilize all of North Africa from Casablanca to Cairo...
...groups sanctioned yesterday includeAsian-American Christian Fellowship; "Diversityand Distinction," a magazine addressing issuesaffecting minority students at Harvard;Observatory Theatre, and offshoot of theHarvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club dedicated to comicskits, plays and jokes; and the Arnold CulturalSociety, which hopes to "further the admiration ofreal-life giant Arnold Schwarzenegger...
...daunting task of making a more refined genetic atlas now lies with the Human Genome Diversity Project (an offshoot of the ambitious Human Genome Project), which was set up by a committee of scientists chaired by Cavalli- Sforza. Its objective is to create a global data base over the next 10 years using the new techniques -- and unlock more secrets of the human gene pool...
That is not all Bloom has to say. His re-exaltation of Shakespeare occurs as an end product of his own idiosyncratic notions of how literature is written and read. Bloom's Canon is the offshoot of a theory he first formulated in his book The Anxiety of Influence (1973) and has modified somewhat in the interim. This presupposition, as so much in Bloom's criticism, is difficult to state succinctly. For openers, writers who wish to be "strong," that is, to produce works worthy of the Canon, must first confront and somehow conquer the power of "strong" writers...
...unknown after it detached from the spacecraft outside the earth's atmosphere early today. The Telstar 402 satellite, owned by the American Telephone & Telegraph Co., was to provide telephone and television links in the U.S. and the Caribbean for 12 years. Now red-faced officials at Arianespace, a commercial offshoot of the European Space Agency, are scratching their heads. The Telstar could represent a $200 million loss, but nobody's sweating at AT&T: "It was substantially insured," spokeswomen Mona Williams told TIME Daily...