Word: offshoot
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...Strache is leader of Austria's far-right Freedom Party, which together with an offshoot far-right party known as the Alliance for the Future of Austria is expected to win up to a quarter of the vote in general elections scheduled for September 28. That would be the best result for the anti-immigrant far right in Austria since the same Freedom Party, then led by the charismatic Jörg Haider, won nearly 28% of the vote back in 1999, triggering a wave of European indignation that culminated in E.U.-imposed sanctions. Haider split from the Freedom Party...
Pearl Jam came together as a serendipitous offshoot of a Sub Pop band called Green River. Rock legend, passed along by the resentful, has it that bassist Jeff Ament and guitarist Stone Gossard split from that band because the lead vocalist wanted to stay true to the experimental spirit of alternative rock, while Ament and Gossard wanted to become big-time rock stars. The band they formed, Mother Love Bone, combined a heavy-metal sound with bouncy tunes. Just as the group seemed ready to break through in 1990, its lead singer died of a heroin overdose...
...Another concern for the government has been Abu Sayyaf's shifting alliances with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (M.I.L.F.), another Muslim independence movement of which Abu Sayyaf was an offshoot. The M.I.L.F. has been involved in on-off peace deals with Manila for almost a decade, though a special group set up in 2002 to facilitate intelligence-sharing between the M.I.L.F. and the government "atrophied in mid-2007," according to the International Crisis Group. In the past two years, M.I.L.F. members have rescued several Filipinos and foreigners kidnapped by bandits, and the organization remains in uneasy peace mode. But some...
...amusing and ironic. But the fact that they're an in-joke among Hong Kong's fashionable diners, as opposed to the time-honored conclusion to meals that they are in Chinese restaurants in the U.S., illustrates just how divorced real Chinese cooking has become from its American offshoot...
...more so since there is compelling evidence that no global warming is currently occurring. Although the alarmists are in denial about this, figures published annually by the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, an offshoot of the U.K.'s Met Office, show there has been no global warming so far this century, and recent research suggests this lull will last at least until 2015 - when warming is expected to resume. Maybe it will: we shall...