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...Among the first through that new door for the coming season were ? once again ? Yorkin and Lear. This time they have a spin-off from "Family" called "Maude," and already it ranks as one of the fall's top prospects. Maude is Edith Bunker's cousin who lives somewhere in upstate New York. As played by the formidable (5 ft. 9 in.), husky-contral-toed Beatrice Arthur, she may do for liberal suburban matrons what Archie has done for urban hardhats...
...Goobily Goop" Grady, Fred Sanford's sidekick on the 1970s hit sitcom Sanford and Son; in Atlanta, Ga. At 42, Mayo was offered one episode's work on the Redd Foxx series but became a mainstay of the show for the next five years, even spawning a short-lived spin-off, Grady...
...shelves. "We need a new breed of social entrepreneur to address the technology needs of the world's underprivileged," said the late Dewang Mehta, a visionary who headed India's software trade body, nasscom, until his sudden death in mid-April. The Bangalore Seven has formed a for-profit spin-off, picoPeta, to manage the Simputer's commercial birth. Deshpande gave a spirited presentation at last year's World Economic Summit in Davos. But drumming up actual investment on the downside of a boom is a tough task, especially with a business plan that allows for easy access...
...cartoon shows on Fox, no other network has had much success, critical or commercial, with attempts at a prime time animated series. But whenever this point is made, the reviewer is undoubtedly forgetting “Daria,” the “Beavis and Butthead” spin-off that has consistently been one of the best, most underrated programs on television...
...satisfy their creative yearnings but kept from doing so by a variety of factors. Besides the stinging poverty that has translated into few programming gigs, political instability and the wrong kind of computer training have kept the country from following India as a beneficiary of low-cost Internet spin-off jobs, either in software or services like call centers or technical support help desks. Some 350,000 students are enrolled in computer colleges across the Philippines, but there are far fewer jobs to match their skills...