Word: offshoots
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...symposium on academic freedom, Chancellor Joseph Murphy of the City University of New York blasted a new right-wing watchdog group that he said was recruiting students "as a corps of thought police." The group, Accuracy in Academia, was founded last summer by Militant Conservative Reed Irvine as an offshoot of his flourishing (35,000 members) Accuracy in Media, which makes a business of challenging perceived liberal bias in major news organizations...
...year, the U.S. has threatened to slash its hefty contribution to the U.N.'s budget unless it gains more control over how the money is spent, has dropped out of the U.N. Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and has refused to submit to the jurisdiction of another U.N. offshoot, the International Court of Justice. Last week the White House almost canceled President Reagan's speaking engagement at the U.N., scheduled for this Thursday, after some Third World nations demanded that Palestine Liberation Organization Leader Yasser Arafat be invited to speak as well. Only when a confrontation threatened to wreck...
While for most of its history, the group barely had enough money to get the publication out, in the 70's, after the formation of its offshoot the National Lampoon, the club earned millionaire status...
...flyspeck in the megahyped world of rock music. The fact is that in almost 20 years of playing, the Dead have never managed to record a song that sold enough copies to make it as a hit single. They have had fair success with albums, but their ecstatic, visionary offshoot of rock spins with improvisation, and the necessity to nail things down in a studio version tends to fossilize the band...
Only four days before Zimmermann's death, the R.A.F., an offshoot of the notorious Baader-Meinhof gang of the 1970s, smashed windows of six banks and attempted a fire-bombing of an electronics company warehouse in Bremen. It was the 30th such strike by the R.A.F. since early December, when 30 imprisoned members of the terrorist group began a hunger strike for better prison conditions...