The company has spent the last year cutting back, closing stores and selling off assets, including the spin out of its Sears Hometown and Outlet Stores into a separate publicly-traded entity.

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The NYSE is to spin off its regulatory arm into a separate, not-for-profit entity, removing potential conflicts of interest.

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The exchange's regulatory function would be spun out as a separate, non-profit, private entity with its own management and board.

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Expedia recently decided to spin-off TripAdvisor into a separate public entity.

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Spellacy sided with the tort-lawyer argument that Mundet disappeared as a separate corporate entity after the buyout, making Crown liable for all Mundet's misdeeds.

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The drug division is unlikely to remain profitable as a separate entity, with Baycol gone and only a skimpy near-term drug pipeline.

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The "Stanford Superstars" were, the WICB insisted, a separate entity to the team representing the West Indies in Tests and one-day internationals.

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Or instead of an integrated Goldman-Simpson, Goldman could buy Simpson in a leveraged buyout deal and maintain it as a separate entity.

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