Word: offshoot
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Meltzer soon turned up in California, representing himself as a top officer of H & J Real Estate Investment of Boynton Beach, Fla., which he said was an offshoot of Abdul Enterprises, and began lining up investment opportunities for Sheik Rahman. The sheik, Meltzer told local businessmen, would lend huge sums to entrepreneurs for promising new ventures; he promised $95 million to one businessman for four tuna boats. But Meltzer demanded that the businessmen first pay him finder's fees. He collected...
...groups have been hostile since the Ndebele, an offshoot of the Zulu, conquered the Shona during the 19th century...
...there's any violence tomorrow, it will be brought on by the authorities," Edgar Bittone of the Coalition for Direct Action (CDA), the Clamshell Alliance offshoot that is organizing the protest, said yesterday...
...inevitable offshoot, the S.O.B. test...
...Provisional I.R.A. has its roots in the trouble-torn days of August 1969, when British troops first began patrolling Ulster. It started as a small band of dissident Catholic militants, an offshoot of an amateurish, ill-equipped and disorganized I.R.A. whose tiny membership strove vainly to maintain the much-vaunted memories of Ireland's "war of independence" of 50 years before. The early Provos soon displayed a ruthlessness all their own. They capitalized on the popular Catholic campaign for civil rights, orchestrated protests and street violence...