Word: spin-off
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Meanwhile, a spin-off job action by pilots nationwide failed to clog airports as feared...
...aircraft, a military spin-off of the Boeing 707, normally takes a crew of four or five. It can carry a sizeable load of passengers even when carrying fuel...
Pitts did not look for cheap victories. He picked as his battleground the commercial strip along Seventh Avenue, already partially abandoned before the riot and utterly ravaged after. With the help of a Ford Foundation spin-off called the Local Initiatives Support Corp., and some local and federal money to secure the necessary loans, TEDC transformed the Pantry Pride site into Edison Plaza, a $2.1 million shopping center with thriving stores and offices, anchored by a Winn-Dixie supermarket...
ARGUMENTS often heard from the government, such as that military and pure research often produce "spin-off" applications possessing great value, are not very convincing claims. A science policy based on the expectation of serendipity is not terribly rational. We would be better served by aiming at practical technologies from the start...
...annual production of chickens from the current 500 million to 5 billion by the early 1990s. Starting next June, the growing legion of Soviet personal-computer users will be able to catch up on everything from software to peripherals in a new quarterly called PC World USSR, a spin-off of Massachusetts-based IDG Communications' PC World that will incorporate articles written by Soviet technical journalists...