Word: offshoots
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...Godfather was an irresistible tale of corruption and an equally tempting celebration of two sacred institutions, the family and free enterprise. The Sicilian, an offshoot of the 1969 bestseller, is also an offer of evil and romance that cannot be refused. Mario Puzo remains one of America's best popular storytellers, though his years of whittling movie scripts have resulted in chapters that seem spindly next to those in the full-bodied Godfather. In fact, the novel could be cut down and inserted in the earlier book. Offstage, at Mafia Central on Long Island, Don Corleone directs events that...
Founded as an offshoot of Theodore Roosevelt's Progressive Republicanism, the New Republic always championed liberalism, but defined it in varying ways...
...fated Bay of Pigs invasion. Powell, also 36, had piloted helicopters in Viet Nam, surviving three crashes caused by enemy fire. Parker belonged to a little-known anti-Communist organization in Alabama called the Civilian Military Assistants group (CMA). Powell was a member of a Memphis offshoot known as Civilian Refugee Military Assistants...
...indisputable winners last week were some of the country's small parties, which tend to have a religious or ideological basis. They picked up a total of 35 seats, ten more than in 1981. Tehiya, a rightist offshoot of Likud, fared best with five seats, while Yahad, a party founded last March by the popular Ezer Weizman, who resigned as Begin's Defense Minister in 1980, won three. The Kach movement, an ultranationalist group headed by Brooklyn-born Rabbi Meir Kahane, who retains his U.S. citizenship,* won its first seat. "In my first [Knesset] speech, I am going...
...four resettlement areas that South Africa has created as "national states" and used as a dumping ground for 6 million blacks. Like the others (Bophuthatswana, Transkei and Venda), Ciskei is recognized as a state only by South Africa. The rest of the world regards it as just another offshoot of South Africa's 25-year-old policy of whittling away its non-white majority (80% of the country's 30 million people) by forcing black residents to become citizens of the underdeveloped and highly impoverished homelands...