Word: offshoots
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...Student Production Association (SPA), the council offshoot organizing the concert, and the Department of Athletics said it would take too much time and money to take the plexiglass down for the May 1 rock show. The shatterproof glass is a permanent fixture in the rink, serving in part to protect fans from players or airborne hockey pucks...
Steenson, the latest victim of a feud that has left ten people dead, was apparently murdered by rival INLA members. Founded in 1975 as an offshoot of the Irish Republican Army, the INLA began to be ripped apart by a power struggle late last year. With no end in sight, the vicious squabble threatens to destroy the band, a goal that until now has eluded authorities...
...people's courts are a brutal offshoot of street committees that were once promoted by the United Democratic Front and the African National Congress, South Africa's outlawed antiapartheid group. Initially formed to discuss grievances and political protests, the committees have since turned to more direct and violent action...
...York City's Computer Equity Training Project and scheduled to be published in December. Its contents include 56 learning activities and 96 pedagogical tricks, ranging from apportioning computer time equally between boys and girls to scheduling late-night computer pajama parties. The Project on Equal Education Rights, an offshoot of the National Organization for Women Legal Defense Fund, publishes handy "equity action kits" that show teachers how to help girls avoid being trapped in "pink-collar ghettos." Warns Director Leslie Wolfe: "We're seeing the old wine of sexism being poured into a new bottle -- the computer...
Perhaps the most notable innovation is the fact that the museum owns and controls its own future, a rare condition for a cultural institution, and it does so on some of the nation's highest-priced real estate. One offshoot of the increasing coziness between the arts and business has been that corporations now offer the use of lobby space in their office towers to cultural establishments. The Whitney Museum of American Art, for instance, displays works in three New York City office buildings. Arts institutions benefit by having highly visible locations; the companies are often allowed zoning easements because...