Word: spin-off
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Usually, though, spin-offs are about dumping a distracting but often healthy operation to focus on a core business. In such cases, not only does the spin-off stock tend to beat its peers, but the parent stock does too. Why? In the case of the parent, investors value that sharpened focus. In the case of the spin-off, management doesn't have to compete for the parent company's attention and capital. Set free, managers can explore new products and markets...
...those staying on campus tonight, the Undergraduate Council is sponsoring a DJ spin-off in Lowell Dining Hall featuring a Harvard DJ, Cameron D. Kirby '02, and a Yale DJ. The event, which will be held from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m., costs $5 at the door...
...council allocated $170 for a dry tailgate party at The Game, and $770 for a DJ "Spin-Off" in Lowell House. The Campus Life Committee also plans a Battle of the Bands for that weekend, in addition to other activities...
Berlinger, who has co-directed true-crime documentaries in rural settings (Brother's Keeper, Paradise Lost), juxtaposes the real with the surreal, whatever those words mean in a fictional spin-off of a pseudo documentary. BW2 ends in a delirious ambiguity, which can be solved by the maxim "Films lie; video tells the truth." But few movies have spread their fibs or facts as clumsily as this one. There's not an emotionally plausible moment in the picture. If Berlinger thinks he's commenting on media sensation--and not trying to exploit it--then the joke...
...early '90s producers Aaron Spelling and Darren Star were the Obi-Wan and Luke of empty-calorie entertainment. They teamed on the teen soap Beverly Hills, 90210 and its spin-off Melrose Place, Spelling lending young Star his powerful name and expertise, Star supplying fresh ideas to the eminence glitz who gave us Dynasty and The Love Boat...