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...general, though, breakups are a good thing for investors. The best tend to be tax-free spin-offs of 100% of a subsidiary. A company spins off a division for lots of reasons--maybe because it needs to get out of a business to avoid conflicts with other pursuits. Or maybe because it screws up and those synergies never surface. Hello...
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...
...wall hung a banner (in Vietnamese) which spoke of the "wonderful Communist party's" support for the university. Clinton addressed head-on the issue of the "the conflict we call the Vietnam War and you call the American War." But ever the optimist, Clinton tried to put a positive spin on those tragic days, arguing that "this shared suffering has given our countries a relationship unlike any other...
...system. It has taken the better part of a decade to finalize the monitoring rules that will guide the states in implementing all the new laws that have followed. Shalala, talking about the long wait, says, "We were not after the quick political hit here. This is not a spin operation. This is a very sophisticated, thoughtful set of regulations that are realistic for the states." Her department, nevertheless, missed congressional deadlines to revamp the child welfare-monitoring system by two years. The ostensible reason: it wanted to produce thoughtful social policy that would lead to the "most sweeping reform...