1.   The company already spun off Case Corp., which makes agricultural and industrial equipment.

2.   Also included are companies spun off from an MIT laboratory or created based on licensed MIT technologies.

3.   As Internet companies spin into the financial stratosphere, Wall Street and the business press speak with awe of the revolutionary implications of the Web.

4.   At its broadest, the levy could be made on British Telecommunications Plc, Railtrack Plc, BAA Plc, or the two companies spun from British Gas Plc.

5.   Brooke is seeking to have the food and tobacco company spin off its Nabisco foods unit.

6.   But Icahn wants the company to spin off the food business and leave the domestic tobacco division inside the holding company.

7.   Companies spun out inventions that allowed Americans to live better than anyone imagined.

8.   GM reported its profit on a continuing operation basis to exclude the operations of Electronic Data Systems, which the company spun off to shareholders last June.

9.   Imation, an imaging and information company spun off from Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co. in June, said the purchase will broaden its desktop software products.

10.   It also charged a for-profit company spun off from United Way of America, Partnership Umbrella Inc., with being part of the fraud.