Job: TV chef, independent producer Age: 36 Industry: broadcasting, publishing Worth: £106m New entry It was another big year for the multimillionaire TV chef and social campaigner, whose spin-off book from his Channel 4 show, Jamie's 30-Minute Meals, became the fastest-selling non-fiction book ever.
The show's stylistic similarities to Sex and the City, whose spin-off film sequel is currently enjoying its second week at the top of the UK charts, have been noted, with Nancy Franklin in The New Yorker pointing out the place of the double-entendre-stuffed voiceover.
Pharma companies used to work with thousands of researchers on staff but now they are sacking those employees and instead working with universities whose research companies can spin off and make their own products – America and Israel have understood this, the UK hasn't.
If you were one of the tens of thousands of business travelers whose schedules spun off the road during the snow and ice storms that snarled the air travel system and bogged down airports from Dallas to New York and beyond, you may have turned on a hotel television in the morning and encountered Dennis Smith's three-minute travel segments.
First, regarding the breaking up of banks, let's enact a capital gains tax cut for long-term investors in "too big to fail" banks whose boards and shareholders voluntarily spin off component businesses to effectively restore the Glass-Steagall separation of financial businesses.
The publisher of the Web site whose name is a vulgarism for "failed company" plans to spin off part of that site into a new unit.
Dreamworks SKG, whose animation team created the "Shrek" series, announced recently that it would spin off its animation unit in a public stock offering.
Successful camp -- whose great practitioners have ranged from Carol Burnett to Charles Ludlam -- can hew closely to the style of what it parodies or spin off into wilder variations.
Or it could spin off the company.
You can spin off some routes.
