1.   They were impressed by the eco-friendly solvent spinning operation, which starts with harvested woodpulp and uses chemicals which can be totally recycled.

2.   Also, Leo Burnett U.S.A. has been decentralized into seven business units, and the Burnett media-services operations have been spun off into a division named Starcom.

3.   If newspaper stalwarts spin those operations off, Morton feels that shares of the parent companies would go down because the Internet is considered a key to their futures.

4.   When the Prodigy online service decided it was tired of losing money on the popular Webzine known as Stim, it spun the operation off as an independent company.

5.   Then, sometime next year, the broadband operation would be spun off as an independent business.

6.   A PUB spokeswoman said the board, whose gas and electricity operations were spun off last year into a new company, Singapore Power Pte.

7.   The utilities board, whose gas and electricity operations were spun off last year in the form of a new company, Singapore Power Pte.

8.   Its Latin American operations were spun off under a listed firm in Mexico last July called Acer Computec Latino America.