Word: offshoots
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...Mexican agreement is the first offshoot of the Baker Plan, named after U.S. Treasury Secretary James Baker, who proposed what he called a new "growth-oriented" debt strategy at the last IMF-World Bank annual meeting, a year ago in Seoul, South Korea. Baker had argued that the developing countries could not dig out of their hole unless their economies were given enough new money to help expand vigorously...
Then in 1902 the fledgling programs got their own building, Nelson Robinson Junior Hall; the first American courses in city planning, an offshoot of landscape architecture, appeared just seven years later. With the introduction of this last great topic in design, the incipient school was complete--although city planning would not become a graduate school of its own until...
Then in 1902 the fledgling programs got their own building, Nelson Robinson Junior Hall; the first American courses in city planning, an offshoot of landscape architecture, appeared just seven years later. With the introduction of this last great topic in design, the incipient school was complete--although city planning would not become a graduate school of its own until...
...named Harry Cipriani after Owner Arrigo (Harry) Cipriani because the title Harry's Bar is already in use in New York. Cipriani shuttles between Manhattan and Venice, dishing up unremarkable but popular food in both cities. "Business couldn't be better," he reports, noting that his New York offshoot is frequented for lunch by "lady shoppers." Perhaps they are attracted to his wanly handsome son Giuseppe, 21, the manager, who was rated by On the Avenue, a tony monthly tabloid, as one of New York's ten sexiest men. Whatever the reason, there are more than enough takers for ravioli...
...doubt many of the house stereotypes are only partially--if at all--based on the lifestyles of the people who reside in each house. But the widely held prejudices about the houses, which are an inevitable offshoot of the choice-based system, encourage freshmen to identify themselves with a given stereotype and reinforce the tendency to label and to ignore others...