Word: partnering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shown a similar get-the-job-done talent on many corporate and public-interest boards and other assignments. Her former law-firm partner William Kennedy remembers that she could wade into a complex case at the eleventh hour "and respond in a heartbeat...
President Clinton may be late in naming an Attorney General, but WEBB HUBBELL, Hillary Clinton's former law partner, is already ensconced in the office opposite the A.G.'s suite at the Justice Department. Hubbell has told friends he does not want to be Deputy Attorney General or to take any other position that involves Senate confirmation -- perhaps to avoid fishing expeditions into the law firm's confidential business. Still, his conspicuous presence raises questions about potential politicization of the department. Former Attorneys General Griffin Bell and William French Smith won high marks in part because they insisted on naming...
Pisam, a freelance French journalist based in Mexico, said the U.S. must start treating Latin America as a partner, not a colony...
Although Intel and Microsoft still have close relationships with Big Blue, there is little love lost between IBM and its potent progeny. IBM had an ugly falling-out with former partner Microsoft over the future of personal-computer software. Microsoft developed the now famous disk operating system for the IBM-PC -- called DOS -- and later created the operating software for the next generation of IBM personal computers, the Personal System/2. When PS/2 and its operating system, OS/2, failed to catch on, a feud erupted over how the two companies would upgrade the system. Although they publicly patched things...
...There is almost a paranoia about creating new jobs in large corporations," says David Orr, a managing partner for the outplacement firm Jannotta, Bray. Concurs Audrey Freedman, president of the Manpower Plus employment-consulting firm: "Companies are about as glad to see a new worker in their ranks as impoverished families are to add another plate to their table...