Word: offshoot
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...Games, a collection of extreme sports competitions whose winter event takes place January 22-25, did not exist until ESPN (and its hipper offshoot, ESPN2) realized in the early 1990s that there was a huge, demographically desirable slice of America that wasn't watching SportsCenter. ESPN executives, aware they were missing out on ad dollars that could be coaxed from finicky flannel-wearing Gen Xers, launched the X Games in 1995. (See TIME's Top 10 Fringe World Titles...
Boston SOS It is an offshoot of New York based Improv Everywhere, best know for staging its “freeze” event in Grand Central Station. According to Cobalt, future plans involve guerilla gardening, or renovating public places under cover of night...
...Israel's refusal to dismantle the remaining settlements, fractured the accord and led to a second Palestinian Intifada in 2000. Israeli withdrawal of forces and settlements in Gaza came only in 2005, after which Hamas increased their influence in the strip, edging out rival group Fatah, a more secular offshoot of the Palestinian Authority led by President Mahmoud Abbas...
...posh. On Nov. 26 Woolworth's and MFI, main street perennials famed for their cheaply priced goods, both collapsed, putting 31,000 jobs at risk. Administrators are hoping to find a buyer for the 815 outlets in the Woolworth's chain, founded in 1909 as a British offshoot of the U.S. company. MFI found its niche selling budget furniture...
...also begun to contribute significant sums to the effort. Rob McKay, the heir to a Taco Bell fortune and chairman of the Alliance, says that between 30% and 50% of the Alliance's 107 wealthy members have given money to the Center for American Progress, or its political offshoot, the Center for American Progress Action Fund. (Corporate benefactors are not disclosed, though the center bars companies from funding specific research projects...