Word: spinoffs
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...trailer, "the phrase 'cop show' doesn't apply" - is an enigma so far. It has a strong cast (Donnie Wahlberg from "Band of Brothers," Mykelti Williamson, Jason Gedrick), but despite its claims of a novel approach to storytelling, the clips played pretty much like a new "Law and Order" spinoff...
...poor and getting relatively poorer. Harvard professors earn 70% more, on average, than their Cambridge counterparts. All U.K. universities put together were able to harvest $414 million from their investments in 2000; the comparable figure for Yale alone this year is $405 million. Oxford is proud that its spinoff companies are collectively worth about $3 billion; graduates of M.I.T., according to a 1997 study, had founded over 4,000 companies that in 1994 alone had revenues of $232 billion. And because Oxford remains a peculiarly federal institution, some colleges have vast holdings while others like Pembroke scrape...
...recovery never came. Sept. 11 did. The lows got violently lower, the pace of layoffs and bankruptcies picked violently up. The recession (which was now back-dated to March) was definitely going to be a painful one, and the recovery from the dot-com bust of 2000 and its spinoff, the telecom bust of 2001, got postponed by a quarter...
...only eighteen months ago, in June 2000, I cannot pretend to have worked on FM in a totally different era. I talk to my fellow editors often, and our conversations are dominated by jokes about our time at FM. Lately, we’ve been talking of creating a spinoff of FM. Several spinoffs, actually. FM: New York will feature reviews of cool bars and hot nightspots. FM: DC will have informed, but sardonic and clever, articles on politics and life “inside the beltway.” FM: Duluth is still in the early stages of development...
...idea that every time my mom wrote a test or even a quiz on a book she was teaching, she would first sit down with the corresponding Cliffs Notes (and any spinoff cheater books that were on the scene) and painstakingly write the test around the information in the booklets...