Word: offshoots
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...dropped out of music, changed gears and then scored a surprise hit with his 1998 solo debut, Whitey Ford Sings the Blues. That record broke all the rules, using acoustic guitars, rapping, blues riffs and elements borrowed from Johnny Cash and Neil Young to create a striking hip-hop offshoot that sounded tough and folksy at the same time. The songs were about working people and the small struggles of their lives, all delivered with a surprisingly sensitive touch by the former hard-core rapper...
...never easy to have a phone line installed in New York City, but on Monday it was well nigh impossible. Thanks to the striking Verizon workforce, thousands of requests usually filled by the Bell Atlantic-GTE offshoot went unanswered, even as company officials continued their talks with about 85,000 deeply disgruntled employees. The workers, who tend to the telephone needs of roughly 25 million Verizon customers, primarily along the eastern seaboard, are up in arms over the company's refusal to allow wireless employees to unionize. There are other labor issues at stake as well - forced overtime, job stress...
...Possibly an offshoot of the Seneca, this body would help coordinate events incorporating all of the members of the four organizations...
FREE-FOR-ALL It had to happen. Eager e-brokers have reduced the price of trading to zero. FinancialCafe.com Freetrade.com (an Ameritrade offshoot) and American Express are trying to reel in new customers by giving trades away. And who are we to complain? Zero beats the $5 a trade that even deep discounters like Brown & Co. charge--but there are some conditions. What's next? Free toasters...
...wrong to suppose that the curiosity about the irrational that pervaded European culture in the '20s was an offshoot of surrealism; this puts the cart before the horse. The French film director Jean Epstein put the matter succinctly when he wrote of how "a host of techniques, from psychoanalysis to micro-physics, has begun to describe a world where...reason no longer always seems right." Cinema "encourages us to think in a dreamlike way...[it] slowly but surely filters the most basic of doubts throughout society: that of questioning the value of absolutes." Dali collaborated with Bunuel...