It had grown into an unwieldy monster by the time GM spun it off in 1996.
In fact the way he's spun it, you'd think spending is still rocketing skywards.
Asked whether this shows how desperate the Yankees are, Cashman spun it another way.
Then Apple CEO John Sculley spun it out as a company in 1990: he was already mired in the ill-fated Newton.
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She zoomed in on the rover and spun it around for different perspectives, hands tapping unconsciously on the keyboard and the mouse.
When Time Warner ran a cable operation (it spun it off in March), investors doubted it could focus properly on either content or distribution.
Someone should have spun it around and said, well, exactly.
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The project became so popular that Sacks spun it out as a separate company, and Zachary, who was also an early investor in Twitter, became the first investor in Yammer.
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But with the seconds ticking down Bath regained the ball and spun it out wide where Crockett put boot to ball for Banahan to out-jump Cueto and score the match-winning try.
The company launched in 1996 as a division of Bay Networks , and then became part of the Canadian telecom concern Nortel Networks (nyse: NT - news - people ), which spun it off in 1998.
It threatened to collapse on me, but I spun from it, righted the pole, and then ran home.
Mr. Schultz was thrown off the elevator wheel, and for a moment it spun unattended before he and Mr. Curtis launched themselves atop it and fought to level off the ship.
Conservatives--allow me to paint them with a broad brush--believe capitalism works best when it is spun with golden moral threads, when it weaves in those old values learned in church, charities, service clubs and the like.
Inspired in part by do-it-yourself Bible "Make" magazine and the book, "Makers, " that spun off from it, "makers, " Muren says, are an emerging subculture of designers and engineers inspired to create with individual interests, not mass-market appeal, in mind.
Last year, it spun off its research arm into a new company, Prothena.
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"He bowled some good balls and it spun and I was playing the line, " he said.
These include the masses who owned shares in Citigroup in 2002, when it spun off Travelers.
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It spun off the Cameron division in 1995 as Cizik was heading toward retirement.
Pushed by Peltz and other activist shareholders, it spun off its Tim Hortons coffee-and-donuts chain and sold its unprofitable Baja Fresh Mexican Grill.
During the painting of the shell, a rod was inserted straight through the car allowing the shell to be spun round as it was painted.
According to the settlement, Tronox assumed responsibility for a wide range of remediation work including the West Chicago sites when it spun off from Kerr-McGee Corp. in 2006.
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In the 1990s, it spun out from the Dundee University work led by Sir David Lane, finding a gene common to more than half of people who suffer from cancer.
He warns that some parent companies saddle their spinoffs with debt in order to pay cash dividends, as Sears did when it spun off Orchard Supply Hardware early in 2012.
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It spun off its Orchard Supply Hardware Stores last December, then also spun off its Hometown and Outlet businesses and a large portion of its stake in Canadian unit, Sears Canada.
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Also, each company has a business segment that could be spun off because it has an operating margin superior to its parent and would also command an above-market enterprise multiple as a stand-alone business.
"We think that the company may spin RSDL off much in the same way it spun off AngioDynamics, " says Hirsch, who also notes that E-Z-EM trades at a discount to its medical equipment peers.
Both Nexans and Pirelli also do research into fibre-optic technologies, the former to plug a gap caused by Alcatel's decision to keep its fibre business when it spun off its other cable operations to Nexans.
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It hoped it had got rid of a large chunk of problems when it spun off Delphi in 1999 and was less responsive to its main supplier's pleas for help than was Ford (which agreed to take over some less attractive plants from Visteon).
It also spun off e-learning and merger-advisory activities, in which it is keeping a small stake.
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