Word: offshoot
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...intersection of cyberspace and Wall Street has produced an unlikely offshoot: the message board as quasi fan club. Some of today's highest-flying stocks are being cheered along by a chorus of believers singing their praises online. U.S. Robotics, a red-hot computer-modem producer, has been touted by hundreds of postings with headings like, "Buy USRX any time...
...considered a strange offshoot of American football. Its rules call for a 110-yard field, three downs instead of four, deeper end zones and 12 players to a side...
...partner, Yasser Arafat, has instead settled for limited self-rule in the West Bank and Gaza Strip as a prelude, he hopes, to a secular Palestinian state alongside Israel. The fear among Hamas followers is that if Arafat succeeds, their vision will die, so their group and a smaller offshoot, Islamic Jihad, have engaged in a terror spree that has claimed at least 123 lives since the peace accord was signed. If Hamas causes enough damage, the theory goes, Israel will abrogate the accords and the edifice of peace will tumble...
...Another offshoot of within-course grades is that students still could gain a sense of where their talents lie. However, they would not have to worry about initial difficulties bringing down their GPAs. This would increase academic experimentation and foster creativity...
Marlowe notes that Algeria has settled into a long and exceedingly violent war in which as many 1,000 people are killed weekly in a bloody contest between the government and the Armed Islamic Group (GIA), a savage offshoot of the FIS. The violence has spilled over into France, where the GIA is believed responsible for a series of bombings this summer and whose dramatic hijacking of an Air France flight last December fanned fears that the war could destabilize all of North Africa...