Indeed, Chile's military ties with Argentina are so close that the two countries have created a joint standby unit for international operations.
Or the first joint police-customs unit, painstakingly put together in the late 1980s but also short-lived?
Remy, Inc. (formerly Delco-Remy, and formerly part of GM) is already building starters and alternators in China through both a wholly foreign owned enterprise (WFOE) and a joint venture with a unit of ASIMCO.
The unit is a joint initiative between the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and the Home Office.
McChrystal writes of his doubts when he was asked to take charge of the military's top counterterrorism unit, the Joint Special Operations Command.
Philips announced last year that it was transferring its loss-making television unit to a new joint venture arrangement with Hong Kong's TPV.
On a positive note, Phillips Electronics gained 0.9% after it announced that it will divest its struggling television unit to one of its joint ventures.
In August the joint venture broke ground on a 74-unit apartment complex in the leafy Havana suburb of Miramar.
As president, Clark said he also would "insist that Saudi Arabia take responsibility" and provide resources and intelligence to help the United States get bin Laden, including creating a joint U.S.-Saudi commando unit to root out terrorists.
As it turns out, the crux of the invention was head-slappingly simple: though a patent-pending idea Smith calls "get out of the way control, " the unit measures the load on each joint as its operator moves about, and figures out the direction it needs to move in 3-D space to literally move out of the way.
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The joint venture with Lockheed Martin and Telespazio, a unit of Telecom Italia, aims to use satellites to offer data at up to 110 megabits per second to the vast majority of offices not passed by fiber.
Morgan Stanley entered a joint venture agreement with Citi to acquire the Smith Barney unit and the merger has had plenty of bumps including longer than expected technology integration.
Once that happens, Nomura's Barker believes Akzo will either sell the American unit or combine it with another firm through a joint venture.
The Virginia legislature, members of both houses, and parties, have an historic opportunity to enact and conduct a joint subcommittee to study the feasibility of a United States monetary unit based on a metallic standard.
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"Our office has spoken with the Dewhirst director who is keen to promote the facility and find a potential buyer for the warehouse in order to secure in excess of 100 jobs and to keep the custom-built unit in operation, " they said in a joint statement.
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At his regular briefing with reporters Wednesday, National Incident Commander Thad Allen said additional questions about the unit would now have to go to the U.S. Justice Department and the Joint Investigation Team.
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