This is a perfect example of what I wrote yesterday about why the big studios really need to focus on blockbusters with lots of spin-off potential even if it means no more mid-budget movies.
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He smiled when he let rip a top-spin backhand, and he even smiled when he netted a volley.
Even so, this year's surge in spin-offs and the rise in the conglomerate discount certainly suggest that new diversifications are likely to be far outweighed by corporate break-ups.
It is true that an appreciation might modestly and temporarily slow China's growth as the economy changes gear but, since China's exports contain lots of imported inputs, it is hard to see even a double-digit yuan appreciation sending exports into a tail-spin.
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Music starts playing instantly, even faster than it would from a local CD that required spin-up time.
Dutch corporate law keeps it from nominating more than two out of nine board members, meaning that it controls just 25% of the board even when it holds 92% of the equity so the spin-off makes sense from a governance perspective.
In reality the central bank will point to recent pockets of positive economic news, already low yields, which would arguably mitigate much of any lead they might take to encourage borrowing and might even spin the positive impact of the U.S. credit-rating downgrade.
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The company even tries to put a positive spin on what ought to be a public-relations catastrophe the revelation that it had insured the Auschwitz concentration camp by stressing its co-operation with journalists investigating the story.
They will also search for spin-off cases involving relatives, employees, employers, subcontractors, partners, and even return preparers.
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But the format, which also has a successful celebrity spin-off, has been criticised by some commentators as low-grade television and even cruel.
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Even into the 20th Century, slate company medical officers, with a nerve of which any spin-doctor today would be proud, were still describing the effects of silica dust on the lungs as "beneficial".
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