It may just want to forge an alliance with a new, nimble partner that can help it expand its own nascent flash memory business.

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Letta's center-left forces, while winning a majority in the Chamber of Deputies, failed to control the Senate, forcing the Democratic Party, after weeks of embarrassing infighting, to forge an alliance with Berlusconi.

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The resulting scandal caused Lula to lose interest in difficult tax and labour-law reforms in his second term and to forge an alliance with the PMDB, an agglomeration of regional barons with a voracious appetite for patronage and pork.

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Moving ahead on Eximbank availability would probably doom any executive branch effort to forge a common alliance policy on this important issue.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

Although Obama received enthusiastic applause from his audience in Prague when he announced his intention to destroy the US's nuclear arsenal, drastically scale back its missile defense programs and forge a new alliance with Russia, his words were anything but music to the ears of the leaders of former Soviet satellites threatened by Russia.

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Due to the popularity of her opponent for the presidency, Ricardo Martinelli, Herrera may be forced to forge some kind of alliance with him in order to win the election.

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Richard Wagoner called off talks with Renault and Nissan to forge an engineering and product development alliance that Kerkorian had championed.

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Richard Wagoner called off talks with Renault (other-otc: RNSDF - news - people ) and Nissan (nasdaq: NSANY - news - people ) to forge an engineering and product development alliance that Kerkorian had championed.

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He also halted cooperation with the alliance under the Partnership for Peace program, designed to forge closer ties between former Cold War foes, and he suspended talks on opening a NATO military mission in Moscow.

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