Word: partnering
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Among the most popular for this age of anxiety is protection from financial and physical danger. For financial security, many firms provide expensive investment counseling to help executives find tax shelters. At the Manhattan law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore, one partner spends his entire time investing and sheltering his colleagues' earnings...
...this--try to arrest one young man for flattening the tire of a parked patrolcar. A crowd circles the men, and through a narrow gap between a parked cars a swarthy man dashes. He leaps on the back of one cop and wrestles him to the ground. When his partner comes to the policeman's aid, he too is jumped, and all the assailants get away. It is perhaps the most personal violence of the weekend, and certainly the most unprovoked, but the crowd doesn't seem shocked--"Pigs suck," one group yells. A more ideological element at the other...
Some doctors feel that the I.U.D.'s dangers are being exaggerated. They insist that pelvic infection, which now causes sterility in 80,000 women in the U.S. a year, is primarily linked to venereal disease and sexual activity with more than one partner. Says Dr. Bruce Stadel, coordinator of a $2 million federal study on gynecological complaints: "For women without serious problems the I.U.D. is probably a reasonable method of contraception and may sometimes be preferable to other methods." But until the issue is firmly decided, many physicians are declining to recommend the I.U.D. for young, sexually active women...
...First Amendment would make any real effort to censor the program not only impossible but counterproductive-a fact of life about U.S. freedom of expression that even the Saudis acknowledged. Exxon, which spends $5 million a year on public TV and is also one of the four U.S. partners in the Ara, bian American Oil Co., issued a statement that it would be "extremely unfortunate" if the show were to hurt U.S.-Saudi relations, but insisted it would not try to inhibit its being shown by threatening to cut off its PBS spending. Mobil, another PBS angel and Aramco partner...
More accurately, it seemed like a scene from Annie, with the failing British Steel Corporation as the orphan child, and the part of Oliver Warbucks played by Ian MacGregor, general partner of Manhattan's Lazard Freres & Co. MacGregor, 67, was hired after nearly a year's search by the British government, which owns British Steel, turned up no one in England to run the moribund firm. Forty names were considered, and two British executives turned down...