"When sharing the planned targeting information with a second party would be contrary to US interests, or when the second party declines a collaboration proposal, the proposed targeting must be presented to the signals intelligence director for approval with justification for the criticality of the proposed collection.
Historically, New York's medical schools, hospitals and research institutions have jealously guarded their research and equipment and more or less declined to work in collaboration.
Britten did in fact set both "A Shepherd's Carol" for a BBC Christmas programme, and "Lay Your Sleeping Head" in his "Spring Symphony" (1948), though after that he declined al further commissioned collaboration.
With the declining costs of global communication and information processing, hierarchy is being replaced by radically different ways of organizing (Fjeldstad et al., 2012), the digital elements of which include cloud computing, big data analytics, cognitive computing, and collaboration platforms.
Warner Brothers declined to comment on its collaboration with Marriott.
The NSA declined to comment on any collaboration with RSA.
Leiber declined, and Presley's fruitful collaboration with the writing team was over.
While a Xiaomi representative declined to comment on potential collaborations with Yunmake, Shunwei's (and, by extension, Lei Jun's) interest in the company is notable because Xiaomi is busy building a hardware ecosystem that extends beyond its smartphones.
Jackson seemed the most starved for affection, regularly pitching collaborations that Prince declined.
The Greenbergs have not publicly explained why they ended their collaboration with Walker, and declined to comment for this article.
(NewYork-Presbyterian's Columbia and Weill Cornell hospitals both declined to comment, given how recently the collaboration started; Sloan-Kettering also declined to comment).
