Word: offshoots
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...Every child of an alcoholic receives the knowledge that the bottle is more important to the parent than he or she is." To mend the damage from those year-in, year-out traumas, hundreds of thousands of Americans have turned to Al-Anon and other family-therapy organizations. An offshoot of A.A. that was formed in 1951 for relatives and friends of alcoholics, Al-Anon has more than doubled in size since 1975 and now boasts some 26,000 regional groups. But the real comer is the children-of-alcoholics movement, aimed at the nearly 30 million offspring of chronic...
...Catholic side, factions of the Irish Republican Army and its offshoot the Irish National Liberation Army are leading the crime wave. Accused of taking in the money for the Protestants are members of the Ulster Defense Association and the Ulster Volunteer Force. In the interest of maximizing profits, warring Catholic and Protestant groups that cannot agree on much else have tacitly decided not to encroach on each other's territory. The I.R.A. and I.N.L.A. have the Catholic neighborhoods of West Belfast to themselves, while the neighboring Shankill district and East Belfast are Protestant territory...
Encouraged by the success of the excellent Claire, a breezy offshoot of a Key West, Fla., restaurant that opened in New York City in 1982, restaurateurs are playing to the enduring dream of an island paradise that has beguiled such disparate spirits as Gauguin and Gilligan. The idea is to create a Caribbean state of mind, drawing inspiration from Key West to Trinidad, with occasional wide detours to Brazil and Mexico, and stressing decor and drinks. The palette runs to hot pink, orange and turquoise that sparkles even in drinks made with blue curacao -- concoctions that may look suspiciously like...
...clearly intending harm to its passengers. Ryan singlehanded puts a stop to this nefariousness, suffering a shoulder wound in the process. Next morning in the hospital, he learns that he has rescued the Prince and Princess of Wales from a terrorist attack by the U.L.A., a Maoist offshoot of the Irish Republican Army...
...offshoot of that last matter, comes one additional task facing high school seniors: the learning of a new language, the language of college...