Word: partnering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Last September the U.S.A.I.D. put out a bulletin on its Famine Early Warning System predicting that Sudan's bad harvest would cause shortages and lead to intensified fighting over supplies, but the organization did not predict a full-scale famine. When the U.N.'s World Food Program, a major partner in Operation Lifeline, was preparing in December to ask donor countries for 30,000 tons of food for Sudan, its own estimates showed at least 35,000 tons would be needed. (Today the program says Sudan will need 15,000 tons a month.) But because of "donor fatigue...
Oddly, my partner and I had just done the right thing a few weeks before, dumping Sunbeam when it first declined to talk about its sales numbers. We feared there might be a secret warehouse somewhere stuffed with unsold barbecue grills. Good worry; the stock now sits 40 points lower, and the board has pulled the plug on Chainsaw Al Dunlop. Why? A massive overstatement of sales and earnings...
Before entering public life in 1993, Keane worked in the business sector, most notably as a general partner in Murphy & Partners, a New York-based equity fund...
...Gibson take their characters far beyond the domain of normal sequel heroes. Murtaugh has always been the quintessential head of household, guarding his flock; Glover's understated performance captures the essence of a cautious man. Riggs has cleaned up and settled down since his first days as Murtaugh's partner, so Gibson doesn't have the crazed Vietnam vet side of his character to play with like he did in the original, but Gibson is equally adept with his characters mellowed thoughtfulness...
...that it would be intensified from time to time by the interruptions of various noisy MacGuffins--wacky car chases, imploding and exploding urban structures, the odd psychopath or two. But what we liked was solid, stolid Roger Murtaugh (Danny Glover) trying to cope with the erratic behavior of his partner, Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson), who didn't much care whether he lived or died and therefore courted death with alarming candor...