Word: partnering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...producer of the high-powered computers that feed the Net, has long been looking for a way to spur demand in cyberspace for its network pro- gramming language, Java. In the Menlo Park, Calif.-based Diba, Sun found an affordable (estimated purchase price: $30 million to $50 million), scrappy partner with the know-how to direct the consumer push. Though Diba's enabling software for smart phones and televisions has received mixed reviews, it's building Internet-browsing TVs for Samsung in Korea. The Sun deal is "a way of playing catch-up," says Dataquest principal analyst Allen Weiner...
...needs money fast; he chickened out of a cocaine-smuggling scheme in the Rome airport, and now owes an irate druglord back home nearly $100,000. Two men in a camper have already arrived in Mendocino County, inquiring after Nelson's whereabouts. The marijuana plants that he and his partner, Clarence Meadows, are cultivating in a remote canyon on his father's land will more than settle this debt when harvested and sold, but Nelson fears Clarence almost as much as he does the big-time dealer...
...need to tell you what a wonderful person Marge was," said Edith M. Stokey, recently retired associate academic dean and Lucker's tennis partner. "All of our presence here today is a testimonial to that...
...After his cocaine-addicted son Hugh shot himself, O'Connor went on a campaign against drug dealers. Perzigian, who spent a year in jail for supplying cocaine to his friend Hugh, sued O'Connor for saying such things about him on TV as "He's a partner in murder, not an accessory." But the jury sided with O'Connor. "It shows L.A. loves celebrities," said Perzigian. Or maybe the city just doesn't care for folks who supply drugs...
Tell a guy from Princeton you're working for your congressional representative and you get, "Oh, cool. That must be so much fun." Introduce yourself as a White House intern, and you'll provoke an involuntary "Wow!" from your conversation partner. Even well-known non-profits and interest groups, like Common Cause or the AFL-CIO, will impress people. But say you're from the Center for Democracy and Technology (an Internet civil-liberties group) or some other small lobbying organization, and you might as well have introduced yourself at a Head of the Charles party as somebody's friend...