Word: offshoot
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...decaying building that no one cares about anymore. That’s what I’m looking for.” Heidi Schork, director of the Boston Youth Fund Mural Crew (BYFMC), loves blank, abandoned walls, which Boston neighborhoods have in abundance. The BYFMC began as a offshoot of the city summer jobs program, with the modest mandate of covering up graffiti on shop fronts in Roxbury. Twelve years and over one hundred murals later, the Crew has expanded into a full-year program combining the goals of urban renewal, after-school program and art school...
...just among fundamentalists. Last December the mainstream Fatah movement of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, the nationalist group that forms the backbone of the Palestine Liberation Organization, entered the suicide-bombing business. Since then, the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a Fatah offshoot, has taken part in at least 10 such attacks, some of them in collaboration with Hamas or Islamic Jihad. The Brigades activists are generally not religious fanatics. "Within Palestinian society, in the past year, a very broad mechanism of social approval has been created that makes it possible for even less religious people to commit suicide," says Ehud Sprinzak...
...specifically identified on lists given to the Palestinian Authority. What's more, the Israelis say, by glorifying killers as "martyrs," Arafat encourages them and puts himself on their side. Anyway, if it is Hamas killing Israelis one day, the next day it is al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an offshoot of Arafat's Fatah political organization that has now overtaken Hamas as the No. 1 instigator of attacks...
ITALY Drive-by Killing Two men on a motorcycle shot dead government labor law adviser Marco Biagi on the street in the northern city of Bologna, and raised the specter of renewed urban terrorism. The day after Biagi's murder an offshoot of the Red Brigades movement, which was responsible for a wave of killings in the 1970s and 1980s, claimed that they had "executed" the economist and law professor for "regulation of the exploitation of salaried workers...
...store—located on Winthrop Street in the Crimson Galeria shopping center—was an offshoot of another going by the same name in New York City...