Word: partnerships
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...recently acquired from St. Paul Catholic Parish. Kathy Spiegelman, the director of planning, is quoted as saying that "this project has given the University the opportunity to meet its own housing needs and at the same time provide affordable housing for the community. It is a partnership effort of which we are very proud...
...success. Its first commercial computers, a series of midsize machines called 3Bs, flopped largely because, at up to $100,000, they were overpriced. The company later formed joint ventures with Convergent Technologies and Italy's Olivetti to make personal computers under the AT&T brand. It also formed a partnership with Sun and made a number of minor acquisitions, including Paradyne, a modem maker, and Istel, which customizes computer systems. But AT&T never managed to capture more than 3% of the market, and losses have mounted to as much as $3 billion. Rumors began to swirl about a possible...
...Bennett's view, forming a partnership with Colombia's Cali cartel was a lucrative business opportunity. His main supplier, a drug lord known to him only as "Oscar," was in effect the chairman of the board of a multinational enterprise. Bennett saw himself as chief executive officer of the California subsidiary. He had an associate, Mario Villabona, who had moved from Colombia to California in 1983. Villabona, a protege of Oscar's, amounted to the California president...
...containers were not necessarily a problem and had planned a $100 million campaign to recycle them. But ecology-minded customers were increasingly unhappy with the packages. As a result, McDonald's is making the phaseout part of a broad pro-environment initiative that the company is developing in partnership with the Washington-based Environmental Defense Fund...
...laws, which have greatly reduced alimony payments, have left many full-time homemakers out in the cold. Says Curtis Tillman, chief judge of the superior court in DeKalb County, Ga.: "Society no longer believes that a husband should support his wife. Now juries and judges see things as a partnership...