Companies try to pick partners with some relevance to their business.
There's even some evidence that people tend to pick partners with noses of similar breadth to their own and eyes about the same distance apart.
While he might not have quite the same talents as his brother, Jamie at least seems to have a knack for picking partners.
No one is saying that courtship should go back to chaperones and dance cards but fantasy universes seem a particularly risky place to pick partners.
Men and women, playing off each other, use long- and short-term thinking, and sometimes a mixture, in picking partners, Dr. Kruger said.
Although the two men did not share ratings for the show, they said the subscriber reaction "increased our confidence in our ability to pick shows Netflix members will embrace and to pick partners skilled at delivering a great series".
Russia had been expected to pick partners from among the world's big energy companies, but instead it let Gazprom, its energy giant, go it alone.Russia has claimed half the Arctic Ocean, including the North Pole, as its territory.
Scientists are moving beyond the observational stage — watching as a couple of female monkeys groom each other into a state of hedonic near-liquefaction — to quantifying the benefits of that well-groomed friendship to both picking partners.
On the wireless side, federal rules limiting mergers expire at year-end 2002 so, by midyear, cell companies will begin picking partners.
Certainly it can be used to create a rationalization for picking partners, moating data, or any other barrier to entry.
