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...only problem was that the land belonged to the village. Mondavi cut a deal with the local government giving the firm a 50-year lease in return for a partnership to improve the quality of wine produced at the local growers' cooperative. In concrete terms, that meant annual payments to growers of $7,000 for each hectare they devoted to the partnership wine, plus a capital injection of $400,000 over five years to modernize the coop's equipment. So the Americans were stunned when the announcement of the project was greeted by storms of protest from an unlikely coalition...
...James Graff: At best you can say they've agreed to disagree. The atmosphere of the talks was positive, by all accounts, and they're all emphasizing the "indispensable partnership" between Europe and the U.S. But each side was never going to convince the other to change its view of the Kyoto Accord, nor would it have been politically productive for President Bush to try and convince the Europeans to change their position...
...Fife says it's "the moral equivalent of starting a forest fire and then going in to rescue a couple of people." The clergymen say they will not turn in to the INS anyone who comes to them for aid. Border agent Aguilar sounds just as wary of the partnership. Saving lives is one thing, he says. Helping aliens get across is something else. Says Aguilar: "There is a line they must not cross...
...Juarez is growing up across town from the old colonias, partly the result of a public-private partnership. Delphi joined Mexico's federal-housing agency in a project to build affordable homes (from $15,000 to $18,000 each) in safe neighborhoods as little as 15 minutes by bus from the plants. The program has helped cut Delphi's employee turnover from as high as 10% a month to 1.2% a year--and put newlyweds Giron and his wife Tania, via Delphi's employee savings plan, into a two-bedroom bungalow with a modern kitchen and interior, done in beige...
...want to do the university-student partnership," Duncan says. "We want to keep Global Justice as a distinct entity from Harvard University. Although it began at the Kennedy School, it's a separate entity...