With each such partner it embraces, Coke risks tarnishing its clean-cut image by associating with businesses that may partake in local traditions that can include bribing officials, paying retailers to shun rival brands and resorting to other unorthodox tactics.
Ergen has offered all the money and more that Clearwire needs to complete its build out, to buy 25% of the company or all of it or to partner with it.
Amazon has for years found ways to make money by referring people to other online retailers, essentially pricing such referrals at a level that make it agnostic as to whether it sells you the product or lets a partner do it.
Although Australia is New Zealand's biggest trade partner, it accounts for only 22% of its exports.
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So if Lockheed was to find a partner, it would have to look abroad.
But a committee of five independent directors found the offer inadequate, so Steiner and a partner withdrew it.
Russia has been a good partner because it is concerned about this threat.
One of Germany's troubled public-sector health insurers has America's United HealthCare as a partner: it keeps quiet about this association.
And we agreed that, if we were to more compete than partner, it would be right for us to split up.
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So, before EADS can become a U.S. defense partner, it and its owners must first prove themselves worthy of our trust.
Partner with it, and it will, it seems, alert you to behavior which it feels may infringe its terms of service.
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Venture capital firm Venrock is bringing on a new partner as it intensifies its pursuit of startups at the intersection of healthcare and technology.
"I was watching the news with my partner when it came on about Samoa and American Samoa being hit by the tsunami, " he said.
If the start-up is too anxious to sign up a big-name partner, it might sign away the most lucrative market segments without proper compensation.
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As a venture partner, it is his job to live at the forefront, the leading edge where the next new disruptive technologies are born.
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Unable to buy out its partner, it is pursuing local incorporation, something only recently allowed, and investments in Bank of Shanghai and Ping An, an insurance firm.
Such objections may be the reason why the NCCUSL's normal partner when it comes to making uniform laws, the American Law Institute (ALI), withdrew from the project in April.
"We saw that when the decoder rat committed an error, the encoder basically changed both its brain function and behaviour to make it easier for its partner to get it right, " he said.
In late July, Amazon was in talks with MySpace about becoming the social networking giant's download store partner when it rolls out its highly anticipated joint venture with Universal, Warner Music and Sony BMG in September.
"We want the European Union to be a partner but it is important to hold a mature and discreet dialogue and not to resort to public declarations, " Rafi Barak reportedly told diplomats, according to a report in Haaretz.
It thus needed a strategic partner with whom it could carry out development work.
"There is obviously a lot of anxiety with talking to a past partner about a diagnosis, particularly if you're not close to that person, or if it was a casual partner, or if it was someone that you had a falling out with, " says Jenny McManus, the company's director of operations.
Amarin investors have been hoping that the company would nab a big pharmaceutical partner to give it access to the kind of partner that made Lovaza such a big product.
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Also, Delta's contract with ASA allows it to impose its own cancellations on its regional partner, which it sometimes does to make room for its own flights.
This year, it retained real-estate-services firm Eastdil Secured to help find an equity partner, and it reached its agreement with J.
It was an unusual thing for a Japanese firm to do, but Nikko called in an American partner to save it.
The Iraqi Islamic Party, Mr Allawi's main Sunni Arab partner, said it would leave the government.
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