Word: offshoots
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...team, an offshoot of the equestrian club, is running into many roadblocks. There are no barns in the immediate area. The equestrian team travels an hour and a half to reach their practice location with minimal transportation available...
...liability issues about as big as a hangover after playing Beirut with Steel Reserve. And second, Big Beer doesn’t realize that a major point to bond on with your teammates during Beirut games is the poor quality of the beer (usually Bud, Miller, or a cheaper offshoot). As much as they are orgies of booze-fueled competition, Beirut games are also organized denouncements of the horrors of cheap American beer. With sponsored tournaments, Big Beer will only be paying to be the dunce in the room. Beirut needs to return to its roots?...
...that remark political opportunism, or at least exaggeration. "The threat is real and constant, but it has not grown significantly higher of late," remarks one French counterterrorism official. "There was a little bit of grandstanding in some of his comments." Still, there is reason for concern. An offshoot of Algeria's ultraviolent Armed Islamic Group, the GSPC had largely waged jihad at home against the Algiers regime, but now appears set on taking its terrorism abroad, officials say. Confidential French intelligence reports reviewed by Time confirm the GSPC has decided within the last six months to internationalize its fight...
...logical offshoot of this initiative must be kept in mind. As access to academic literature is made easier, it is likely that American universities—and by deduction American industries—will no longer enjoy an obvious advantage of access when compared to other countries. As local students in many developing countries are granted access, physically studying in America, while still advantageous, becomes less so. In this situation, it is also more likely that underprivileged academicians—hitherto without access to Western libraries— will produce more world-class research...
...Alas, the cessation of sectarian hostilities was too good to last. A day after the tragedy, a brief gun battle broke out between Iraqi security forces on the bridge and some Sunni insurgents in Adhamiya. And al-Qaeda's Iraqi offshoot, led by Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, claimed credit for an earlier rocket attack on Kadhimiya, the Shi'ite district on the other side of the bridge. Drive-by shootings at Sunni mosques in southern Iraq last Friday suggested scapegoating by some Shi'ites. And calls for a peace march after the joint prayers in Baghdad proved futile: not enough...