Word: spun
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...women joined hands, swayed their hips, spun under each other’s arms. They called it Detroit Ballroom...
Denham, which is headed by former Harvard Management Company (HMC) Vice President Stuart Porter, was spun off in June from Sowood Capital, an investment fund backed by an initial pledge of $500 million from Harvard and headed by Jeffrey Larson, another former HMC vice president...
...captain, is hard at work bringing the picket lines to the Internet out of a deep concern for biased media coverage of the strike. “The multimedia conglomerates that rule Hollywood also happen to control most news media in this country and the story is constantly getting spun in their favor,” he says. “We quickly realized we had to get the story out there in a different way, so we created a virtual picket line.”This virtual picket line includes a MySpace page, Facebook pages, and multiple YouTube clips...
Brabeck wants Nestle's management structure to pay less attention to national boundaries, and he has begun to get his way. Nestle's water business is now run as a global operation out of Paris, and its eye-care business was spun off as a separate company, Alcon, with its own stock-market listing. Nestle's most futuristic business, an attempt to develop nutritional supplements that enhance beauty, is being pursued as a joint venture with L'Oreal. But Nestle's national organizations still manufacture much of what they sell locally, controlling the chocolate, milk and most other products they...
...American leaders in Santiago, Chile. The king got fed up when the Venezuelan firebrand went on one of his rants and repeatedly accused former Spanish Prime Minister José MariaAznar of being a "fascist" who had supported a 2002 coup attempt against Chávez. Chávez later spun Juan Carlos' outburst as a monarchical affront to democracy (though Juan Carlos was, in fact, key to restoring constitutional rule in Spain after the death of its genuinely fascist dictator, Francisco Franco, in 1975). "The king is a head of state like me," Chávez said, "only...