Word: partnerships
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Such relationships need not be monogamous. In addition to its tie-in with MCI, the nonprofit Nature Conservancy recently established a partnership with the profit-seeking Nature Co., which sells art, maps and gadgets designed with ecological themes through 60 stores and a catalog with a circulation of 4 million. The National Wildlife Federation has licensed its logo for use on toys, T shirts and stuffed animals at K-Mart, Sears and other stores across the U.S. The N.W.F. also allows American Greetings Co. to sell a series of birthday cards made from recycled paper and sporting pictures of endangered...
Playing up their new partnership, the two leaders smiled and quipped before the cameras, alternately deferring to each other. But as they fielded American viewers' questions, the underlying tension in their respective agendas was palpable. While Gorbachev repeatedly stressed the need for "cooperation" between the republics and for a new central order, Yeltsin preferred to press the interests of his Russian state...
...seen the dissolution of an empire of this magnitude." Indeed, as a senior White House official put it last week, "it's a case of the U.S. deciding what it means to be the only superpower. For the past year, we all thought the new world order meant a partnership with the Soviet Union. Well, what if there's no partnership? What if it's a newer world order, one in which we're the only superpower? What are our responsibilities then...
...anticoup hero who, like many other politicians, found it easier to lead a popular uprising than to form a government. In the name of protecting democracy, Yeltsin issued a blizzard of decrees asserting Russian control of many central government functions. He went far enough to endanger his new partnership with Gorbachev, who accepted the first batches of decrees but protested that later ones were "unacceptable...
Leaked debriefings from Noriega's inner circle shed considerable light on his many shady dealings, from arms transactions with Libyans and North Koreans to intelligence-sharing with the Cubans. But none of his former high-ranking officers say Noriega ever moved drugs or even formed a partnership with the Colombian drug lords. Former Major Felipe Camargo did confirm that Noriega received a multimillion-dollar bribe from Colombian drug lords in 1984 in exchange for safe haven in Panama. But Camargo also said the only bid by the general's men to get into the drug business in a major...