Word: offshoots
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...Munich spectacular was designed to be just that. Black September was an unacknowledged offshoot of Fatah, Yasser Arafat's faction within the Palestine Liberation Organization (P.L.O.). Abu Iyad, the Arafat deputy who headed Black September, later explained that the hostage taking was meant "to use the unprecedented number of media outlets in one city to display the Palestinian struggle--for better or worse...
...clamoring for a foot in the door. Aksara's new role as a cultural producer is part of the allure. It recently launched a book on Indonesian architecture under its own imprint, and it's now working on a TV show about the creative process. Aksara Records, an offshoot, is about to release its eighth CD and recently entered into a distribution deal with Universal Music Group Indonesia. None of these works are designed to appeal to a mass audience, but that isn't the point. "Aksara is more about the choice of music, the people and their vision," says...
...Aksara's new role as a cultural producer is part of the allure. It recently launched a book on Indonesian architecture under its own imprint, and it's now working on a TV show about the creative process. Aksara Records, an offshoot, is about to release its eighth CD and recently entered into a distribution deal with Universal Music Group Indonesia. None of these works are designed to appeal to a mass audience but that isn't the point. "Aksara is more about the choice of music, the people and their vision," says Daniel Tumiwa, Universal's marketing director...
...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?...