In America research was split off from investment banking in 2003, with painful effects.
In 1999, the new territory of Nunavut was split off from the Northwest Territories.
The Scottish population, which was split off from the continental population about 9,000 years ago, after the last ice age, is in crisis.
CBS Films is the company's attempt to get back in the movie business after it was split off from Viacom into a separate company.
The company, which was split off from Viacom in late 2005, includes the CBS network, CBS Radio, Showtime and half of the CW Network.
The Liberty Media Corporation was split off from AT&T today, giving the chairman, John C. Malone, more freedom to raise money and invest in cable television systems, investors said.
They have been sloughing off their low-margin, cyclical chemicals businesses (emulating Zeneca, which was split off from its own chemicals branch, ICI, in 1993 and has been profiting ever since).
Among the groups that have been reported to be under investigation in the bombings were one with a similar name, the Jewish Defense Organization, which was split off from the Jewish Defense League by the group's leader, Mordechai Levy.
The Asian portion of Global Crossing's network was sold to China Netcom, a company that was split off from the China Telecommunications Corporation, China's largest fixed-line carrier, and renamed Asia Netcom.
