As executive chairman of ERA he was its public face and a confidence booster for foreign partners.
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It keeps its business practices squeaky clean, in order to be first choice for foreign partners and investors.
But despite the Crisis, only 8.2% of all the companies surveyed were actively searching for new foreign partners.
After all, a great deal his business now relies on foreign partners for funding as well as development abroad.
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It has been seeking foreign partners for the big long-term investment required.
From 2003, for instance, the foreign partners will be allowed to decide what models to make in the plants, and may even take controlling stakes in their joint ventures.
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To set the stage for an easier entry into foreign markets, Zhang is currently looking for overseas partners and claims to have signed preliminary agreements in dozens of countries.
It told a familiar story: an impoverished ex-Soviet institution offering its expertise to foreign partners in return for funds.
However, Russia's current president, Vladimir Putin, has made life much tougher for western oil firms by restricting exploration by foreign outfits, making conditions stricter for joint-venture partners, and showing what would happen to dissenters with the dismemberment of Yukos.
Matsushita looks on such payments to its foreign partners as an investment for the future.
Ibrahimovic has been credited for boosting higher television rights fees from foreign partners.
Specifically, Leahy had proposed recognizing same-sex marriages in which one spouse is an American, and allowing U.S. citizens to sponsor foreign-born same-sex partners for green cards given proof of a committed relationship.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy has filed an amendment to the Gang of Eight bill that would allow gay Americans with foreign-born partners to sponsor them for green cards just like heterosexual couples can.
That makes the foreign assemblers dependent upon their joint venture partners for further expansion.
Chinese oil companies already have interests in Niger, while Libya is looking for external partners as it opens up its energy sector to foreign investment.
On the contrary, she retorts, many of the loudest critics of such marriages are women whose foreign grooms filed for divorce once in Britain, often then bringing their real partners over from Pakistan.
That would partly explain why foreign companies are not rushing to enter on their own but rather are looking for Indian partners who know their way around.
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