Word: offshoot
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...that the absence of channels for democratic political participation in Arab states has helped foster terrorism, which has eventually been exported. Osama Bin Laden may be Saudi, but most of the top-tier al-Qaeda leadership at the time of 9/11 were veterans of Egyptian Islamic Jihad, a militant offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood that turned to terrorism in response to the Sadat regime's peace treaty with Israel, and found hundreds of willing recruits in Egypt's middle class and in its officer corps. The Brotherhood, of course, is a far more moderate Islamist entity than Jihad, originating...
...taller player like Sifers (5’8), speed is an offshoot of agility...
...legal controversy is the latest offshoot of the military’s controversial “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, which emerged in the mid-1990s...
When George W. Bush addressed the U.N. in New York City last month, the applause was tepid, the audience somber. When Laura Bush addressed UNESCO, the U.N.'s scientific and cultural offshoot, in Paris last week, the response was heady, enthusiastic. Sure, that's partly because she's a coiffed First Lady and not a controversial President--but the glowing response was also because Mrs. Bush spoke in the gentle, feminist language penned by consigliere Karen Hughes that U.N. types favor. At times she even sounded a bit like Hillary Clinton, saying that "learning empowers women to ask questions...
...Target, are creating new products, catalogs and, in some cases, chains of specialty stores designed to capitalize on the decorating dreams of tweens and teens. "There's a kid quake going on, and spending on furniture is up," says Steve Farley, executive vice president of BombayKids, a year-old offshoot of the Bombay Co. The firm has just six kids' stores now, but it plans to have 100 in three years. At Pier 1, CEO Marvin Girouard foresees the company's new chain of Cargo Kids stores growing from 33 now to 300 over the next decade...