Sometimes they seek each other's opinions on strategies recommended by the joint operating committees, which comprise C-suite members (chief operating, financial, and strategy officers), so that decisions can be made and implemented rapidly.
The bishops' 209-7 vote prohibiting hospital sterilizations comes at a time when Catholic hospital chains are expanding across the country, in large part by buying former non-Catholic institutions or by entering into joint operating agreements.
It also contends that MediaNews will harm The Tribune by changing its joint operating agreement with The Deseret News, which is owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
J Ray McDermott SA was recently awarded a subcontract by PTSC Mechanical & Construction Co Ltd, to engineer, procure and install certain offshore facilities for the Su Tu Development - Su Tu Den North East project, located offshore Vietnam and operated by Cuu Long Joint Operating Co. Contracts of this nature are typically valued at more than US $90 million.
Consequently, although I join in the Court's judgment in this case, I find it unnecessary to define the circumstances in which a declining newspaper may properly act to assure its future independence as a news medium by entering into a joint operating agreement similar to the one challenged here.
The end of that skirmishing was marked by the establishment of a joint operating agreement, combining the business and back-office functions at the two newspapers, which remain competitive in news and editorial content.
The Gannett Company and the owner of The Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Liberty Newspapers L.P., have settled on new terms to end their joint operating agreement by Dec. 31 if the newspaper is sold.
By the terms of the companies' joint operating agreement, their legal liability for the well corresponds to their share of ownership.
Most important, they contend that before he was replaced as chief of the joint operating agency last week by The Tribune's new owner, Mr. Welch was putting up costly roadblocks to their plan to change The Deseret News to morning publication, a move they regarded as necessary if the paper was to thrive.
Because the joint operating agreement is overseen by the United States Justice Department, under the Newspaper Preservation Act of 1970, the department may also choose to weigh in.
