The aim of the joint effort is to link 100, 000 Americans over age 50 with small business development resources, including workshops, conferences and mentoring programs.

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The idea was to outshine other airline alliances, which are essentially joint marketing arrangements, with a link that cut costs as well, by sharing aircraft and ground facilities.

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Equally impressive for Spurs was Berbatov's attacking partner Robbie Keane - the two forwards are the joint winners of the April player of the month award - whose link-up play was exemplary.

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Mr Schafer's friend Bill Owens, a former vice-chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has a large role in the Teledesic project, which will link the Internet to a new network of satellites.

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The French are not happy that German trains, not French ones, will run on the soon-to-open high-speed link between Moscow and St Petersburg, nor that Siemens is pulling out of its nuclear joint venture with Areva.

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We need to be looking at joint arrangements with others and it is important that we use the opportunities presented by Phoenix, for example, its link to the motorsport company, Lola.

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