Word: spinnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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They weren't the only ones. In February a FORTUNE article documented the unfolding family discord. Vulture investors began buying up stakes and pressing a sale or spin-off of Dow Jones Markets (estimated 1996 sales: $833 million). One investor, Michael Price of Franklin Mutual Advisers, snapped up 6% of Dow Jones and vociferously pushed for a sale of the whole company...
Away from the microphones, one of the summit's more prominent voices gave it a slightly more cynical spin: Now Congressman So-and-So can go to the Christian Coalition and talk technology, technology, technology. Not that there aren't still a few bugs. Many of the software programs block out innocuous Websites as well as toxic ones; others are cumbersome or do unpleasant things to your computer's operating system. Many in the online industry are touting a new "platform for Internet content selection" (PICS) system that is a kind of V chip for the Internet. But as participants...
...could make circumstantial connections all day, but the fact is that in key aspects of character and plot, Interview With the Vampire and The Wings of the Dove spin strikingly similar stories. Sure, their twinship isn't biting anyone's neck just yet. Still, the similarities are telling and important, and all the more interesting for the fact that they are unlikely to receive much comment or notice...
Carville, meanwhile, leaned back in his chair and smiled smugly as he awaited his turn to deliver the counter-spin for which he is famous...
SPEEDING TO A NEW DESTINATION Detroit entrepreneurs go for a spin in Africa...