Even a culture of teamwork, based on developing familiarity and friendly cooperation between employees, can result in congeniality taking precedence over the introduction of ideas that might prove unpopular.

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The embassy said the report could be "part of an aggressive propaganda tool against Venezuela" at a time when relations between Venezuela and Colombia had "reached a level of stable cooperation and friendly dialogue".

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These risks could be even further reduced if, thanks to the generally excellent ties maintained by our Navy with those of allied nations, opportunities for cooperation in adapting various friendly countries' ships for missile defense purposes are fully exploited.

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By then the firm was increasingly moving from friendly buyouts, undertaken with the cooperation of management, to hostile ones, where new management would often strip the target company like a stolen car, sell off choice bits to the highest bidders and fire thousands of employees along the way.

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