Word: offshoot
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...Another concern for the government has been Abu Sayyaf's shifting alliances with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (M.I.L.F.), another Muslim independence movement of which Abu Sayyaf was an offshoot. The M.I.L.F. has been involved in on-off peace deals with Manila for almost a decade, though a special group set up in 2002 to facilitate intelligence-sharing between the M.I.L.F. and the government "atrophied in mid-2007," according to the International Crisis Group. In the past two years, M.I.L.F. members have rescued several Filipinos and foreigners kidnapped by bandits, and the organization remains in uneasy peace mode. But some...
...amusing and ironic. But the fact that they're an in-joke among Hong Kong's fashionable diners, as opposed to the time-honored conclusion to meals that they are in Chinese restaurants in the U.S., illustrates just how divorced real Chinese cooking has become from its American offshoot...
...more so since there is compelling evidence that no global warming is currently occurring. Although the alarmists are in denial about this, figures published annually by the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, an offshoot of the U.K.'s Met Office, show there has been no global warming so far this century, and recent research suggests this lull will last at least until 2015 - when warming is expected to resume. Maybe it will: we shall...
...North End: “If you would like me to put you in touch him…maybe he could give you some useful advice and some further inspiration.”I met Mr. and Mrs. Tognetti in their apartment on Tileston Street, a small offshoot of Hanover. The first thing I learned about Mr. Tognetti was that he was “very critical of the North End. I live here and I hate it.” The second thing I learned was that home for the retired Mr. Tognetti was and forever will be Mantova...
They may share a CEO, but J. Crew and its new offshoot, Madewell, are worlds apart. Madewell?more casual, less expensive and a bit more bohemian than J. Crew?was a defunct workwear company when Mickey Drexler bought the name shortly before he joined J. Crew. In 2006, Drexler assembled a team to revive the brand in a new format. Since warming up in markets across the country, Madewell has opened its New York City flagship. The two-story store (below) successfully conveys the brand's spirit with original 1882 moldings, floors and fireplaces, and a brilliant contrast of stark...