It's a low-rent joint: The ladies' room is housed in a corrugated-steel shed.
The low-cost joint ventures offer a measure of protection against market troughs.
So far it has a dozen or so such low-cost joint ventures, including a 50-50 deal announced in December with Petrochemical Industries Co. of Kuwait.
It also entered into a joint venture with the leading low cost carrier in Asia, AirAsia.
An automatic hamburger flipper currently in development could replace low-wage line cooks at a beachside burger joint, for example.
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It has created a network of a dozen Chinese and U.S. companies to develop joint business ventures to build advanced, low-carbon coal technology in China and around the world.
They too want to reopen some of their closed mines to look for low-grade ore, and plan to expand production through joint ventures with international players.
Similarly, Nissan, along with its joint ventures, plans to have a total of five low cost cars in the country by 2015.
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In just the past month, Burger King has introduced no-bun burgers, and the Subway sandwich chain has introduced a joint marketing promotion with the Atkins Diet Center to promote low-carb wraps.
Mr Wareham, from the joint Staff Side unions, said staff were persuaded because their current low cut uniform is unpopular and had resulted in "dignity issues".
Its not exactly a secret that Nokia has a number of challenges, including a struggling mobile infrastructure joint venture and transitioning its device business toward smartphones while its core low-tier mobile phone business is under attack thanks to ZTE, Huawei and others.
In his latest testimony to the Joint Economic Committee, Mr Bernanke noted that unemployment had now fallen to a four-year low of 7.5%, but the job market was still weak.
Mark Wareham, a joint union spokesman, said the offer to replace the current "unpopular uniform" which has a low cut front had persuaded staff.
The Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard said in its 2011 report that the recession increased the pool of low-income renters at the same time competition for cheaper affordable housing units became more fierce.
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