Some company assets will be hived off but there won't be a wholesale sell-off.
The company was part of the UKAEA before being hived off and privatised in 1996.
That means banks' bad loans have to be hived off, their cost borne painfully by the taxpayer.
The more urban-north of the previous constituency was hived off and Malcolm Wicks became its first MP.
Some 27 unproductive units have been hived off, and the workforce has been reduced by two-thirds to 8, 300.
The police have been hived off from the army, leaving them with no intelligence arm of their own.
Other parts were hived off to Hitachi of Japan, where unwieldy conglomerates are still in vogue, or closed down.
More controversially, the firm wants to get back into petrochemicals (its former chemicals offshoots were hived off and privatised by the government).
The role as head of the civil service will be hived off, after a competition, to a top mandarin running a government department.
Although vehemently rejected by Kosovo Albanians, the idea that this bit might be hived off into Serbia is being discreetly floated in diplomatic circles.
She spoke of a Labour "culture of secrecy" and "fear of transparency", where council functions had been "hived off" to arms-length companies and where accountability was "virtually non-existent".
McGuire Properties is one buyer of those hived-off Blackstone assets.
In his environment role - which was later hived off into a separate department - he was a key player in agreeing Kyoto Protocol on climate change in 1997.
Investors are not worried about the pedestrian parts of Motorola's business, which include emergency-services radios and hand-held scanners, and which will be hived off into a firm called Motorola Solutions.
Mr McCausland has pledged this autumn to unveil future plans for public housing in Northern Ireland, which could see the NIHE abolished and its dwellings hived-off to new or existing housing associations.
The bit of PWC forcibly hived off might well wither and die quite quickly, or simply specialise in auditing smaller companies (where there is less of a competition problem, in any case).
Mervyn King's remarks that he wants to see RBS's poisonous and low quality assets hived off into a new so-called bad bank matter - but probably not in the way that seems most obvious.
Supposedly, Mr Stollmann stepped down (or rather back) because Mr Lafontaine won his demand that key planning and Europe departments be hived off from the economics ministry and added to the Lafontaine finance empire.
Or to put it another way, it is difficult to embark on the disposal of RBS and Lloyds until we know how much more of Lloyds might be hived off by government fiat and how far the profitability of RBS could be reduced by the ring-fence expected to be erected around the retail activities of universal banks like it.
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