NewsCorp, for one, must be itching to send its Daily Drone out for a spin this week.

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Potter has a book coming out this fall called Deadly Spin: How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care And Deceiving Americans.

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This was to be the next business to spin out of Microsoft after Expedia but missed the window before the dot-com bust.

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Pfizer stock is up 17% this year because investors hope Pfizer will decide to spin out businesses that sell baby formula and veterinary medicines.

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Rick Claus, an electrical engineer at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute in Blacksburg, Virginia, and Jennifer Lalli, a polymer chemist at NanoSonic, a spin-out from Virginia Tech, believe they have solved this problem.

ECONOMIST: MONITOR

Some idea of how all this works in practice can be gleaned from considering the genealogy of just one spin-out, ThermoTrex.

ECONOMIST: Spinning it out at Thermo Electron

Its power to generate wealth and expand freedom is unmatched, but this crisis has reminded us that without a watchful eye, the market can spin out of control -- and that a nation cannot prosper long when it favors only the prosperous.

CNN: Obama's inaugural speech

Its power to generate wealth and expand freedom is unmatched, but this crisis has reminded us that without a watchful eye, the market can spin out of control - and that a nation cannot prosper long when it favors only the prosperous.

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Earlier this month, Mr. Bauer, the Texas banker, took his Chaffee out for a spin in his warehouse parking lot.

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