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...making much sense of ADD either. Shortly after the disorder was first identified, a spin-off, Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity, or ADHD, was born. As an elementary school student in the mid-'80s, you may have encountered one or two children who had to take regular medication for hyperactivity. They were most likely taking Ritalin, the ADD and ADHD treatment of choice since the early days of the disorders...
...pretty accurate assessment of a movie that drips with so many plugs for products that the characters joke about it in the script. The film, which links Michael Jordan with Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and the rest of the Looney Tunes stable, has generated more than 200 spin-off items that Warner is hoping will eventually pull in $1 billion. That would be on top of the $3 billion already generated annually by Looney Tunes paraphernalia. But Space Jam is different from most movies in that it not only feels as if it were inspired by a TV commercial...
There was, in truth, plenty to be scared about. 3M (1995 sales: $13.4 billion) has long been the Ma Bell of Minnesota companies--a revered and maternalistic giant that gave the world Scotch tape and Post-It notes, where jobs for life are still a norm. The spin-off, called Imation, a $2.3 billion business that became an independent, publicly traded company last month, offered no such security. Only 3 of 4 people who worked for the new company's divisions when they were part of 3M made the move to the Imation payroll. Gone were two management layers, five...
...spin-off trend picked up momentum last year, when U.S. companies loosed a record $48 billion worth of ventures into the marketplace. This year, with AT&T casting off its manufacturing division as Lucent Technologies, the value of spin-offs is expected to reach $70 billion. Last week Dial Corp. sent its $1.5 billion consumer-products division spinning...
...finding adventures of all kinds in WordsWorth's new spin-off for kids, Curious George Goes to Wordsworth...