In some ways, Thermo has had it easy, increasing sales by entering niche after niche with spin-out after spin-out.
And from the team that brought you CSI and NCIS spin-offs comes yet another: a Criminal Minds mid-season spin-off starring Oscar winner Forest Whitaker.
It produced four spin-offs and two spin-offs of the spin-offs.
Grandis makes a non-NAND flash solid state storage technology called spin-transfer torque RAM (STT-RAM) that stores information via the direction of magnetization in a spin-polarized electron current.
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The film, starring Bafta nominee Peter Capaldi as the venomous political spin-doctor Malcolm Tucker, is a spin-off from the BBC TV series The Thick of It.
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Within the limits of accuracy of the experiment, positron spin-flipping seems to happen at the same frequency as electron spin-flipping.
If you're a frequent reader you're surely well aware of the potential of spin torque transfer memory, or STT-MRAM, and how spin-polarized magnetic currents (and the electrons they love to caress) might hold the potential to revolutionize storage as we know it.
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Mippin is a London-based spin-off from Deutsche Telekom, previously part of its T Mobile research division.
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China is building most of Africa's new dams out of its own pocket, with all sorts of hoped-for spin-offs.
The technology is commercialized by Transform Solar, a Boise, Idaho-based spin-off of the semiconductor giant Micron Technology.
The company expects to create these companies through a tax-free spin-off of the North American grocery business to Kraft Foods shareholders.
Equally unsuccessful was The Golden Palace, an ill-considered spin-off from The Golden Girls, the popular sitcom about four women growing old gracelessly.
This new consortium, which was spearheaded by Draper Laboratories (a non-profit spin-off of MIT), could make those medical standards much more consistent.
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Joe Cornell, founder of Chicago-based Spin-Off Advisors, says the next step will likely be an exchange offer from Pfizer later this year, giving shareholders the ability to exchange some of their holdings for shares in the animal health business, likely at a discount to incentivize participation.
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We still don't feel like consumers are rushing out to buy those portable but quirky UMPCs (well, an unnamed Engadget editor actually did rush out to buy one -- and returned it shortly thereafter), but it seems like the form factor is here to stay anyway, and now Korean manufacturer Daewoo Lucoms -- a spin-off of Daewoo Electronics -- has released its own version called the Solo M1.
It did not affect South Africa's momentum, however, and Boucher had a century there for the taking when he tried to slog-sweep Sehwag's off-spin and top-edged a catch to slip.
Despite their defensive efforts at self-congratulatory 'spin-control, ' this episode is but the latest example of the diminution of U.S. power and influence in foreign affairs during the Bush Administration's tenure.
Though international formats often lack the built-in recognition of spin-offs (Fox's upcoming The Cleveland Show) and remakes (CW's upcoming 90210), they can, though they don't always, offer something even more appealing: lower production costs.
Panos Lioulias, chief executive of Qubis, a venture-capital outfit that nurtures spin-offs from Queen's University in Belfast, thinks indigenous entrepreneurs are a big part of the remedy.
After some serious management upheaval, the Gap began to turn a corner this year, finally churning out fashion hits like brightly colored jeans at its flagship Gap chain, and Mad Men-inspired clothing at upscale spin-off Banana Republic.
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What distinguishes an I-Corps start-up from a typical university spin-out is the way it forces researchers to stop fixating on the technology they have developed.
It was Richard's tragedy that after being betrayed by the turncoat Stanley family at Bosworth, he then had to contend with the greatest poet-playwright in the English language spin-doctoring against him on behalf of the incoming regime.
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Part of Morgan Stanley's year-over-year earnings decline came from the spin-off of Discover Financial Services.
Gareth Rees and Will Bragg added 59 for the second wicket before Tom Westley's part-time off-spin accounted for Rees to a bat-pad catch.
Part of Morgan Stanley's year-over-year earnings decline came from the spin-off of Discover Financial Services (nyse: DFSWI - news - people ).
If Mr Obama really were the miracle-working, aisle-jumping, consensus-seeking new breed of politician his spin-doctors make him out to be, you would expect to see the evidence in these eight years.
The answer lies in a huge yet barely acknowledged shift of power within government: from the civil-service machine to ministerial personal advisers and spin-doctors.
Altria - which is the parent company - is expected to announce plans today to spin-off Kraft Foods, the maker of Oreos, Velveeta and other snacks.
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