When France's Thomson announced on November 3rd that it was in effect shedding its TV-manufacturing business to a partner called TCL, few people had heard of the other firm.
Joyce Moore, the wife of Sam Moore of Sam and Dave, said Mr. Moore had received many offers to hire a partner, call him Dave, and tour again as Sam and Dave; he refused.
The BMW win came about through a partner called Autoliv, a Swedish maker of auto safety equipment.
He later had the idea for Stack Overflow in 2008 with a partner called Jeff Attwood, who is now also celebrated for his 'Coding Horror' blog.
The team was looking for evidence that a protein called p35, which works with a partner called Cdk5 to add phosphates to other proteins, might play a role in Alzheimer's disease.
In the fetish world, she's known as a "feedee"—under the control of a partner called a "feeder," who encourages her to eat as much as possible.
Contributing to the increase is what Wayne Outten, a founding partner, calls transactional work — helping employees who are moving into and out of jobs to negotiate with their employers.
The group has a "brand partner" called Lumican, a Canadian startup on a mission to provide light where it's needed without blotting out those breathtaking views of space.
She adds, "Sometimes a spouse or partner calls and realizes that the scientist is getting increasingly frustrated because he or she cannot read anymore or cannot read comfortably".
The Paris-based company has had a subsidiary in China, a joint venture with a government partner called Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell, for three decades.
