Word: partnering
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...yielded nothing more than a pair of dry holes before the Triton Energy Corp. of Dallas staked a claim in the mid-'80s. Because Triton lacked the capital to explore the area, it sold an 80% share to British Petroleum, which took in France's Total as an equal partner. Today the consortium is part of a joint venture with the state oil company, Ecopetrol, which is developing an estimated 2 billion bbl. in Cusiana and the neighboring Cupiagua field. That could be just the beginning: the partners' plan to invest $6 billion over the next 40 months to bring...
...composers ranging from Duke Ellington to Kris Kristofferson. The record is really a tribute to one particular composer, though. The liner notes call the album "a prayer -- a private, sacred promise to a lost love." That love is for Horne's great friend Billy Strayhorn, Duke Ellington's composing partner, who died...
...long-respected health-care system in Cuba is faltering under the combined impact of the U.S. embargo and the loss of the East bloc as a reliable trading partner. While Cuba can still boast of having 51,000 doctors -- 1 for every 231 inhabitants -- it suffers from a critical shortage of medications and medical supplies. Last year's mysterious neuropathy epidemic, which affected more than 50,000 people and was apparently linked to nutritional deficiencies, has run its course with no deaths, but critical shortages are threatening to unravel a health system once described by the Pan-American Health Organization...
Long-term, low-key approaches have helped gays elsewhere. In March 1993 a law banning many kinds of discrimination -- including that against gays -- went into effect in Miami Beach, where gay investors have played a key role in the resurgence of the South Beach area. Greg Baldwin, a gay partner in Florida's largest law firm, Holland & Knight, spearheaded the drive for the ordinance. Says Baldwin: "We were very careful. We weren't screaming and yelling and alienating. That wouldn't have helped us achieve our goal." Instead, Miami Beach's gay leaders spent a year and a half working...
...true. In January 1993 he dismissed European proposals to partition Bosnia as too favorable to the Serbs and a reward for their aggression. In Paris he agreed to put Washington's full weight behind a plan that would give the Bosnian government, composed mostly of Muslims, and federation partner Croatia 51% of Bosnia's territory, leaving 49% for the Serbs, who now hold...