Word: partner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...upgrade Lun Feng for state-of-the-art stuffed-toy manufacture, which really means little more than loading an empty building with sewing machines, Lun Feng's Hong Kong joint-venture partner lent the factory's nominal owner, the town of Kai Kong, more than $1 million. (The national government got its cut by charging a fee for converting the Hong Kong dollars into Chinese currency.) Since then, Lun Feng has been on its own. Much of the fabric used by the factory comes from Taiwan. "No problem," says Lun Feng's operations manager, who happens to belong...
...troublesome as it can sometimes be to have a mercurial government as one's business partner, greater problems often arise from a mismatch of position and personnel. Most jobs are assigned by the government, often with little regard for a person's qualifications or preferences...
...settlement reached this week between HRE, the Boston Fair Housing Commission and graduate student Christopher H. Stewart requires the University to disregard sexual orientation when deciding whether to allow the "domestic partner" of a Harvard affiliate to live in affiliated housing...
...Harvard housing policy will extend to an unmarried, non-affiliate same-sex or opposite-sex domestic partner of a Harvard affiliate the same privileges under leases as are given to a non-affiliate spouse of a Harvard affiliate," the agreement reads...
Another jewel comes in the performance of Zakes Mokae, who plays Stanley Sutherland's partner in the fight to prosecute Stolz. Unfortunately, some of the film's more insipid lines are dumped on Mokae, lines such as "hope is a white word" and "the best way to remember a man is to keep fighting." But Mokae managers a convincing mix of spite and tenderness, nonetheless...