Word: offshoots
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...might have been prepared for the tough, relentless probing. But his inquisitor was a precocious blond cherub of 13, Jonathan Zachary, who delivered his questions with a slight preadolescent lisp. Zachary is one of 16 youngsters featured in a new TV show called Children's Express News Magazine, an offshoot of Children's Express news service, which has been disarming public figures since it was founded for kids by New York lawyer Robert Clampitt...
Started in 1977 as an offshoot of the Center for Lifelong Learning, the HILR has grown from an original 93 students to nearly 400 this semester. Although the largest, block of HILR students is made up of men and women formerly involved with education at some level, professions as varied as archaeology, dentistry, oceanography, and philosophy are represented in the program...
...offshoot of the I-30 condo scandal, as it is known locally, resulted in the March indictment of former Democratic Party Fund Raiser Thomas Gaubert, 48, who has been charged with arranging $8 million in questionable loans by an Iowa S and L for property in another Dallas development. As part of the deal, the indictment alleges, Gaubert, a friend of House Speaker Jim Wright, bought land for 50 cents per sq. ft., then sold it the same day for $5.25 per sq. ft., pocketing $5.6 million in profits. Gaubert, who denies any wrongdoing, says the Republican Administration is trying...
...addition to the integrated groups, Black students also participate in the all-Black Kuumba Singers, and that a cappella group recently spawned an offshoot, the Impromptus...
...little-known leftist group called the Mardoqueo Cruz Urban Guerrilla Commandos claimed responsibility. It is an offshoot of one of five guerrilla armies in the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, which has been fighting the U.S.-backed government for the past eight years...