Word: partnerships
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...Romance served the evolutionary purpose of pulling males and females into long-term partnership, which was essential to child rearing. On open grasslands, one parent would have a hard -- and dangerous -- time handling a child while foraging for food. "If a woman was carrying the equivalent of a 20-lb. bowling ball in one arm and a pile of sticks in the other, it was ecologically critical to pair up with a mate to rear the young," explains anthropologist Helen Fisher, author of Anatomy of Love...
Kasowski joined with Lafayette Graphics to produce the cards, using $4,000 from Harvard and his own funds. The partnership has made 1,500 sets of 31 cards for the dedicated Crimson fan to buy, collet and trade...
...When there is a crisis situation, there is a greater sense of anxiety and nervousness and people want to reserve their feelings," says Bragg. "There is no crisis at this moment but there is no partnership...
...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 up, the partnership was tattered. IBM developed its own version of OS/2, which has so far failed to capture the industry's imagination. Microsoft's competing version, dubbed New Technology, or NT, will debut this spring and will incorporate Microsoft's highly successful Windows program, which lets users juggle several programs at once...
...each of these three areas, Jacoby and hercolleagues say they hope to help move women'sissues into the mainstream. "This is not anadversarial approach," Wilson says. "This is arecognition that society will benefit from aneffective partnership between men and womenfocused on important issues...