Word: partnering
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France's counterintelligence service, the Directorate of Territorial Surveillance (DST), had been tracking the spying since 1992, according to Le Monde. A female CIA officer and her male partner first tried to bribe a member of parliament with 500-franc notes to reveal France's negotiating position on world-trade talks, when Washington was pressing Paris to lower agricultural subsidies and open its television-broadcast market to U.S. programs. Another senior official in the Ministry of Communications was offered cash for intelligence on telecommunications and audiovisual policy. A technician for France-Telecom, the French telephone network, was also recruited...
...archrivals, yet they have teamed with Sega of America to form the Sega Channel, which could go out over the companies' superhighways. Entanglements like these have given rise to a new term: coopetition. Notes communications consultant Jeffrey Kagan: ``It can be very difficult to share secrets with a partner and keep them away from a competitor when they're one and the same company...
...supermarkets, consumers will shop without having to pay cash or sign credit-card receipts. An infrared or microwave ``interrogator'' could register each consumer as soon as he or she enters a store and be ready with account information when the time comes to pay. Supermarket futurist Gary Lind, a partner at Arnold Ward Studios/Lind Design in Hempstead, New York, envisions ``intelligent carts'' that will use optical lasers to scan bar codes automatically as items are moved in or out of a shopping cart, thus enabling customers to keep a running tab. These carts might even be programmed to organize...
...morning, the PLO chairman's justice minister said that more than two dozen Palestinians would be tried in special military courts as part of a crackdown on Islamic militants. But the group, which faces the death penalty, is on trial for allegedly collaborating with the PLO's erstwhile peace partner, Israel. Later today, as Israeli officials criticized the plan, Arafat warmly announced that he was ready to start negotiating a permanent peace settlement -- including accelerating the final talks now due in 1996. "We are ready to start as soon as possible," Arafat said...
...agreement still seems likely, but the question then will be whether it spells out a coherent Mexican financial policy. Felix Rohatyn, a senior partner at Lazard Freres & Co. in New York and an unrivaled expert on financial bailouts--he headed the one that saved New York City from bankruptcy in the mid-1970s--complains that ``Mexico hasn't come up with any strategy at all'' and adds, ``I`m very worried.'' Financiers complain in particular that Mexico has not decided what to do about the peso--whether to let its price float or try to stabilize it within some range...