Word: spun
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...fact, a story that had everything to do with politics and not much to do with national security--a story that illuminates a signature disgrace of the Bush presidency: its tendency to treat the war in Iraq as an issue to be spun, rather than a life-and-death struggle to be won. In this case the White House was trying to "knock down" a former ambassador, Joseph Wilson, who had disputed the claim--made by President Bush in his State of the Union address--that Iraq attempted to buy uranium in Niger. The Administration had built its case...
Here is a J.K. Rowling who lives in the hearts and minds of children everywhere. She has a fairy wand and hair of spun gold, and when she laughs her tinkly laugh, tiny silver bubbles come out of her mouth...
...BenQ's Lee, 52, is one of the few in Taiwan taking on the industry's heavyweights. An easy-going engineer, Lee began using the BenQ brand in 2001 when his organization was spun off from Acer, Taiwan's well-known computer company. The BenQ logo can now be found on MP3 players, LCD TVs and monitors, notebooks and mobile phones. An 80-person design team, led by a former Porsche designer, has created trendy gadgets aimed at Asia's youth, such as a coin-sized MP3 player that can be worn as a pendant and sleek laptops called Joybooks...
...however. Acer is prospering because it no longer makes computers?or anything else. Since Wang took over as Acer's president in 2000, the company has undergone a no-prisoners downsizing that jettisoned all of Acer's electronics manufacturing operations. The computer-making arm and contract manufacturing businesses were spun off and renamed Wistron. The consumer-electronics division became BenQ, and an LCD maker became AU Optronics. The new Acer exists primarily as a computer design, distribution and marketing company that hires contract manufacturers such as Taiwan's Quanta Computer to ship Acer-branded machines from factories in mainland China...
...American operations before moving to First Interstate in 1976. He was promoted to chairman of First Interstate's bank holding company in 1978. Pinola is well aware that from 1927 to 1956 his bank was part of the Bank of America empire founded by A.P. Giannini and eventually was spun off as an independent after Congress passed a law that mandated the divestiture. Pinola's dream is to rejoin his twelve-state regional firm with BankAmerica's single-state, 895-branch sprawl to become what one First Interstate executive calls the "premier retail bank in America." Pinola's idea...