Word: partnerships
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...News anchor Tom Brokaw on PBS next summer, your TV isn't broken. NBC and the Public Broadcasting Service last week announced an unprecedented partnership for the 1992 presidential conventions. The rivals will jointly produce programming for PBS. Brokaw will appear on PBS with Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer, and solo on NBC. The deal provides NBC with a graceful way of covering the conventions without sacrificing lucrative entertainment shows, since its own coverage won't begin until 9:30 p.m. With viewership dwindling, the conventions have become an expensive duty for the networks. Still, they are loath to offend...
...companies decided last week to put away their boxing gloves. IBM and Apple plan to join forces and share technology in a potentially powerful partnership that could reshape the computer industry. The culmination of weeks of cross-country negotiations, the collaboration could help plug large gaps in their product lines and position both companies for the future. Among the elements...
...alliance scorns another powerful company, Intel, which has supplied the microprocessors for IBM's machines and has commanded an almost monopoly position as a maker of IBM-compatible chips. Possibly to foster more competition, the new partnership says it will buy advanced processors from Illinois-based Motorola, whose chip business has been suffering lately because some of its big customers, including Unisys, have been in decline. IBM has been busy lining up other partnerships as well. Only a day after announcing its deal with Apple, IBM said it would join forces with Germany's Siemens A.G. to produce a powerful...
...found that her height (5 ft. 10 in.), dark coloring and close-cropped hair made it difficult to find other jobs in a world that prized petite, fair women with flowing tresses. Ailey, however, recognized her special talent and kindred spirit and invited her to join his company. Their partnership flourished, reaching its apogee in 1971, when Ailey created Cry, a solo dance tribute to black women that became Jamison's signature piece...
...foreign countries now hold the dominant economic positions in so many parts of American life. That's not true of space. In this area we are still the world's leader. We've spent $5 billion in the station's development and definition. We've created a complex international partnership. We need, I believe, to keep this position as No. 1. It's a matter of both world leadership and economics...