Word: partnerships
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...clock ticking off a countdown--just a deep voice that suddenly said, "Zazhiganiye [ignition]." As the white Soyuz rocket soared up over the brown Kazakh desert, it flew into a new era of space exploration, transforming one of the 20th century's fiercest rivalries into a partnership for the 21st century. Thagard, 51, became the first American to be shot into space aboard a Russian launcher. And after a two-day ride on the Soyuz, the physician-astronaut became the first American to take up residence in the Mir space station, where he will study the effects of lengthy space...
...from a subsidy worth at least $400 million. Simply because he is black, Washington and his partners were able to make a special tax deferral part of their $2.3 billion acquisition of Viacom Inc.'s cable systems. Under the provision, a company that sells a cable system to a partnership controlled by a minority can qualify to defer its capital gains on the sale indefinitely. The law was designed to encourage minority ownership of broadcast properties, a fact Washington knows better than most. He wrote the original policy at the FCC in the late 1970s and since then has secured...
However, the worst mistake Clinton could make would be to use the "Partnership for Peace" as a permanent substitute for NATO's expansion. Having two classes of security guarantees would likely make the partnership a vague and ineffective alliance. At the same time, the prospect of western expansion would still inflame Russian nationalists...
Meeting in secret--the way McArthur prefers todo business--MGH and the Brigham struck a deal toform a health care provider known as PartnersHealthCare Inc. Since then, McArthur has becomechair of the partnership...
...single player but by alliances of companies. Cooperation is a necessity, because no single company has the resources to build, program and operate anything as complex as an information highway. There are about half a dozen such confederations. In addition to the Time Warner/U S West/Silicon Graphics partnership, cable giants TCI, Cox and Comcast have joined forces with the long-distance company Sprint to develop a design of a seamless nationwide system for delivering cable and telephone service. Meanwhile, a number of the Baby Bell phone companies have turned to Hollywood. Ameritech, Bell South and Southwestern Bell (now SBC Communications...