Word: partnering
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These changes cannot be underestimated. After 70 years of benign neglect by the United States, it only makes sense that Mexico (its third largest trading partner) be involved in a deal which would ultimately be overwhelmingly beneficial. An alliance of this kind is also crucial in countering the emerging regional dynamos of the European Community as well as similar Asian groups...
...Kravis, the pixieish juggernaut from KKR, the New York City firm that had written the book on leveraged buyouts. Kravis, who months earlier had met with Johnson and discussed the possibility of taking RJR Nabisco private, was furious at Johnson for his double-dealing. With his cousin, and KKR partner, George Roberts, Kravis submitted a blow-them-out-of-the-water bid of $90 a share...
...Carlyle Group scored its biggest political coup last week, when it signed James Baker as a partner. Baker is no banker, but as a former Secretary of State and George Bush's veteran campaign handler, his Washington and worldwide connections are unsurpassed. The same is true of the firm's chairman, Frank Carlucci, a former diplomat who was Ronald Reagan's Defense Secretary. When teamed with managing director Richard Darman, who as Bush's former Budget Director brings financial as well as political expertise, the group seems like a Republican Administration in exile. And its members hope to lure...
Baker was brought into the firm by its founding partner and top-ranking Democrat, David Rubenstein, a former domestic adviser to President Jimmy Carter. He met Baker after the election through their mutual friend Robert Strauss, the wheeling-dealing Democrat who had just finished serving as Bush's Ambassador to Moscow. "Here I was with a man who helped throw me and other Democrats out of office 12 years ago," recalls Rubenstein of his first meeting with Baker in the White House. "And we had been brought together by a prominent Democrat fresh from duty in a Republican Administration...
Granat, who played at the number two spot behind Parker breezed through her doubles match with partner junior Co-Captain Melissa McNabb 8-3, and then outclassed her singles opponent, 7-5, 6-1. Two players made unexpected returns to the courts yesterday and also came out with wins. Harvard Coach Gordon Graham gave freshman Erica Cheng and Katie Hatch the call, and both rookies had no problems with their Providence opponents...