The two species had lived separately since splitting off from a common ancestor, Homo heidelbergensis, 160, 000 years earlier.

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If he's not there to sell the whole thing, perhaps he will end up splitting off the commercial bank and running the remainder.

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Zoetis and Mead Johnson part of a growing trend of large companies splitting off complementary businesses that can stand on their own two feet.

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Georgetown is one of seven basketball-focused Catholic schools splitting off from the conference to create their own league, which will begin play next season and keep the Big East name.

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Hassan, a Somerville, Mass. mental health counselor who has helped scores of former Dahn members, says the group uses deceptive recruitment and mind-control techniques to create a dissociative disorder among followers, splitting them off from their families and value systems.

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It appeared in the May 1, 1975 FORBES, not long after John Bogle had created Vanguard by splitting a fund administrative arm off from a money management company.

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That means truly splitting up may be months off.

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But Chesley managed to delay his day of reckoning by splitting the Bar Association action against him off from the other lawyers.

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Motorola is planning on splitting up in the first quarter of 2011 when it spins off its handset business to shareholders and sells its wireless infrastructure business, leaving its enterprise mobility business, which mostly consists of selling radios and wireless systems to first responders.

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Blackstone has considered splitting the company up, selling its financing business or even spinning off its PC business.

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