BMCC, Matsushita's original joint venture, set up before the rest of the world rushed madly into China, has yet to repay its investment.

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Biggest mistake: Assuming that the managers of the original joint venturers in arm had a common plan for the company, when in fact they had differing agendas.

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General Dynamics has an advantage in the competition because it led the one part of the original joint program that actually delivered on the promise of software-defined radios.

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Stoke-on-Trent City Council, which is joint owner of the original hoard with the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, has said it will start a fundraising campaign to buy the new pieces.

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"These minutes shed interesting light on the process by which the caveats in the Joint Intelligence Committee's original assessment of Iraq's WMD programme were stripped out of the dossier presented to Parliament and the British public, " said shadow foreign secretary William Hague.

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After experience with early hand- held calculators at Rockwell International, with the first consumer video tape recorder at Cartridge Television, and with the original computer controlled video editing systems at CMX Systems, a CBS-Memorex joint venture, he began his own management consulting business in 1974.

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There is a longstanding practice in the joint force of maintaining weapons systems in-house rather than sending them back to the original manufacturers for support, but that practice was partially abandoned over the last ten years due to lack of capacity in federal facilities as war-related repairs ramped up.

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