Word: partnerships
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...20th president of Yale will be in charge of developing the school system, which will provide education at costs equivalent to those of public schools. The project, a partnership of Whittle Communications, Time Warner Inc., Phillips Electronics, N.V. and Associated Newspapers Holding Limited, will change the way Americans are educated, Edison officials...
...years: "You're on your own." Quayle's complaint may be smart politics -- the White House is convinced that the November election will be a three-way battle in which core conservatives will determine the outcome (and so is now suddenly urging a continuation of the "Reagan-Bush partnership"). But because of what two G.O.P. Administrations have failed to do, Quayle's calculated rant rings hollow and deserves little more than a bemused shake of the head...
...would-be oil barons have been looking for ways to capitalize on the legendary oil reserves in the Commonwealth of Independent States. But when mighty Chevron signed an agreement with Kazakhstan last week to develop the Tengiz field, one of the world's largest, it marked the biggest partnership to date between a U.S. corporation and a former Soviet republic. The plan calls for the partners to invest $20 billion in the venture over the next 40 years. Chevron will have a 50% interest, but Kazakhstan will get 80% of the income, after the U.S. oil company pays taxes...
...revival, this time by the book. A discreet bidding war ensued for the approval of Loesser's widow, actress Jo Sullivan, who holds key copyrights and has firm opinions about every detail of staging, from the flutter of a hand to the color of a necktie. The winner: a partnership, calling itself the Dodgers, that had produced noteworthy new musicals (Big River, The Secret Garden) but never a revival...
...image is classic, the men competing in the America's Cup final this week know victory will owe more to expensive high-tech wizardry than to the art of ancient mariners. "National technology is at the heart of the competition," says John Marshall, boatbuilder and head of the Partnership for America's Cup Technology. "It's been a technology contest since 1851." That year a newly designed schooner called America launched the quadrennial challenge by trouncing an entire fleet of 16 British racing yachts in a course around the Isle of Wight...