Stay on the front foot with foes and refuse to be intimidated; extend alliances.
Once Talib-led Pashtun Sunni Muslims, Afghanistan's largest homogenous ethnic grouping, have regained control of the south and east of the country in the civil war many believe will follow Nato's exit, there is good reason to believe they will revive or extend alliances with like-minded groups, including the Pakistani Taliban and other extremist Sunni groups.
Ms. Villa said that Reuters eventually would like to extend its alliance to The Times newspaper and its Web site.
Bristol-Myers may extend the alliance for two years in exchange for paying as much as $50 million.
The Boeing Company said yesterday that it would extend an alliance with the British military and aerospace group BAE Systems to build more tanker planes.
The command shift, approved at a two-day meeting of NATO defense ministers at this Adriatic resort town, would extend the alliance's area of operations across all of Afghanistan.
Interros, owned by the onetime Kremlin insider Vladimir O. Potanin, said it chose not to extend the alliance because Mr. Soros had not consulted it on important issues, including a share swap he proposed to the government.
Some saw it as rash and needlessly provocative towards Moscow, which has long argued that the West broke a promise not to extend the alliance into the former Soviet bloc after the end of the Cold War.
He expressed hope that the new club President, due to take over in 2010, will extend the alliance with UNICEF.
The company has also extended its alliance with AOL Time Warner, which has invested $100m in Amazon.
While employed with Day and Zimmerman, consulting engineers in Richmond, Virginia, we were unsuccessful extending our alliance contract with Honeywell Corporation.
