Word: spun
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...Avalon, though, was something else entirely and indicates the direction dance music must go if it’s to truly catch on in this country. The whole club had been transformed, with tribal figures, aliens and patterns around the front and back of the main stage. Carl Cox spun his magic from the balcony, where the DJ is usually located in Avalon. Sasha and Digweed, however, entrenched themselves on the main stage, surrounded by two huge screens which showed psychedelic images of hands clenching and unclenching, flowers blooming and Space Invaders images. The lights were also overwhelming, with three...
...push for a cease-fire without any link to negotiations over the political future of the West Bank and Gaza. That was never going to work - even Israel's security and intelligence chiefs had warned as much - and it left the administration standing ineffectually on the sidelines as violence spun dangerously out of control...
...department store, not vice versa. It had to be high-caliber enough to bring people in, and that is why we have been successful." So successful, in fact, that Harvey Nicks now owns two out-of-store restaurants in London, the Oxo Tower and Prism, and has spun off a separate company to manage them...
That's certainly the case with British retailer Kingfisher, which mainly runs home-improvement stores in the U.K. and France. Last year, Kingfisher spun off its Woolworths general merchandise stores, and there is now intense speculation - not denied by Kingfisher - that the retailer will rid itself of its electronics group, which includes Comet in the U.K., Darty in France and other chains in Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands and Eastern Europe. Diageo wants to offload Burger King, the fast-food chain it has owned for about 13 years, to concentrate on alcoholic beverages...
...insists that it has no plans to sever all ties to Alcon, though analysts still expect the food giant to untether the eye-care group eventually. As for Deutsche Telekom, it won't be Europe's first long-distance operator to unload a wireless unit. British Telecom last year spun off mm02, and France Telcom floated a piece of its Orange mobile unit. In addition, the T-Mobile carve-out will help Deutsche Telekom put a small dent in its $54.4 billion debt. Deutsche Telekom also wants to sell its cable assets; regulators rejected a $4.8 billion deal with Liberty...