At the front of 6, desperate to get up and down, he loops a weak lob into the air, the ball quickly coming back down to terra firma, only a yard or so in front of him, then spinning off and rolling back down the fairway.
Shutting down or spinning off search and Microsoft's efforts in mobile devices would reduce losses like the $900 million write-down it took on its Surface tablets in July.
Time Warner, under its chief executive, Jeffrey L. Bewkes, has slimmed down by spinning off its cable business and, now, AOL.
Balls can spin off the slope and down to the hole.
Volvo, Europe's largest truckmaker, restated fourth-quarter earnings to post a loss because of a write-down from spinning off its stake in a competitor, Scania, to comply with a European Commission directive.
Only in the final section does this movie calm down a little: spinning off into the story of a waiter in a bizarre hostess club where the girls are dressed in skimpy outfits as the soldiers of an ironically reclaimed Maoist past.
Only in the final section does this arguably overlong movie calm down a little: spinning off into the story of a young man who finds work as a waiter in a bizarre brothel-hostess club for wealthy plutocrats and foreigners, the girls being ironically dressed in skimpy outfits as the soldiers and workers of the Maoist past.
"As they wind down and spin off these more market-oriented derivatives businesses, that is going to be a challenge for them in part because of the complexity of the business," said Jim Eckenrode, a banking analyst at TowerGroup, a financial services consulting firm.
Skype Qik, Microsoft's attempt at spinning off video messaging into a simplified mobile application, is shutting down.
Spinning off the animal health, consumer and nutrition units looks like a relatively easy way to slim down.
