Word: partnering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kirkland and Ellis partner Daniel W. Vittum, Jr. said in a phone interview that "the nature of the gift is that there are no strings attached" and that his firm "did not seek to put any restriction on area." He said the firm preferred to leave such determinations to Law School officials...
...opened this week at Cornell University. Measuring 30 ft. high and 160 ft. wide, the $160,000 wall utilizes concrete blocks and specially designed pieces of real rock as hand- and footholds. For safety's sake, climbers wear helmets, are attached to emergency lines and work in teams. One partner on the ground mans his buddy's belaying line. In some places on the wall it is necessary to press one's face against the rock and inch upward clinging perilously to golf ball-size projections and toe-pinching crannies. Such realistic action thrills ascension aficionados. Says Ken Gerow...
...leader Lothar de Maiziere was accused of cooperating with the Stasi, the despised state security police under the old regime. The information came from the same sources who had supplied the documents that destroyed the brief political career of Wolfgang Schnur, leader of the small Democratic Awakening, a partner in the CDU alliance. Schnur resigned when the reports charging that he had provided information to the Stasi about his dissident clients proved true...
...semiannual pret-a-porter bazaar -- clothes that are manufactured in quantity at much lower prices than the hand-sewed fantasies of haute couture. It was, however, not his fluent, confident designs but his health that made headlines: the fragile designer was hospitalized a few days before his show. His partner, Pierre Berge, issued a statement blaming nervous exhaustion and emphasizing to an AIDS-ravaged industry that no infectious disease was involved...
...trades commodities from his darkened, video-wired beach house (as cozy, Danny says, as the inside of a digital watch). Finally, there are Jane Holt, Newport Beach's first female police chief, who believes she can find safety in life if she can achieve order, and her old-fashioned partner, who knows the folly of that hope...