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hive
(redirected from hiving off)

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For big name firms like Clayton Dubilier & Rice, for example, the chief task in hiving off Hertz from Ford was to convince the parent that it would, to paraphrase a Bobby Vee oldie, "take good care of my baby.
Last year, a joint working group of the Senate and House intelligence committees, sifting through reform proposals that had long circulated among intelligence experts in Washington, suggested one possible way to resolve the conflict: Break up the FBI, by hiving off a new domestic counter-intelligence agency modeled on Britain's M15.
Hospitals have led the way in hiving off their functions to private service providers (e.
 
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