Word: spin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Patrolman Michael Saclese was driving west on Soldiers Field Road when the rear axle of his car broke and the left rear wheel fell off, causing the car to spin backwards into a lamp post near the Weeks footbridge...
...Elizondo scored what turned out to be the game-winner with 3:27 remaining on the clock, twirling around to spin the ball past Notre Dame goalie Matt Brown...
Commerce, however, does not go begging. Miyake's designs for his men's and women's collections and for a couple of spin-off lines like the lively, lower- priced Plantation, as well as royalties from assorted licensees supervised by him, pull in upwards of $50 million yearly to the Miyake offices in Tokyo. Stateside his clothes are available in 15 specialty and department stores, including Bergdorf Goodman and Neiman-Marcus, and in many of the more adventurous boutiques. Manageably pricey in Japan, where most of them are made, the clothes get pretty dear after freight charges, duties and store...
That complex merger calls for Forstmann to sell Revlon's beauty-products business to Adler & Shaykin, another New York investment firm, for about $900 million. Forstmann will spin off several other Revlon units to New York-based American Home Products for an estimated $350 million. The transactions will leave Forstmann with the rest of Revlon's health-care business, including prescription drugs and contact lenses...
...response, advocates say that SDI research, like the space program, will have spin-offs that benefit private industry. The knowledge gained through Apollo flights helped scientists develop a multitude of products, from miniature computer chips to the cordless Dustbuster vacuum cleaner. Says John Rittenhouse, executive vice president of the aerospace and defense division at RCA: "We're not banking on SDI reaching production. We're banking on the fallout to commercial and consumer areas for the payoff." Technology spawned by SDI could conceivably be used to build better communications equipment, air-traffic-control systems or industrial robots. High-speed computers...