Goldman has performed well there but has fallen behind rivals like Merrill and Salomon in striking alliances.
But even there the tech firms are busy striking alliances with established players.
Behindthechair, which is based in Roselle, Ill., quietly went about acquiring content that matches its graphics: sewing up broadcasting rights to the industry's avant-garde hair shows; licensing curriculum from the leading beauty school educator, Milady; and striking alliances.
And as they do so, they are striking alliances with Asian rivals that they once would have regarded as inferiors.In this section IAI takes wing Replenishing the drinks cabinet The mighty, fallen The second coming Ready, set, grow Locals first When stars go cuckoo ReprintsThe biggest changes are taking place at NEC, which is also the most ailing.
With large amounts of money to dispense for subcontracts and support services, P.L.A. officers have become powerful, striking alliances with Pakistan-sponsored local functionaries, Pakistani bureaucrats and Pakistani businessmen who are profiting from more than 200 mining and other Chinese-run projects.
Like many web companies, MarketWatch has found that the best way to increase its traffic is to get advertising space by striking alliances and ownership deals with established media companies.
A merger of the two would be a striking corporate alliance between proud cities that compete fiercely to be the region's financial center.
Still, to a Western visitor, a striking feature of alliance territory is that women are seen only occasionally on the street, silently carrying a child or leaving a bazaar with food.
Pride's nomination represents a significant achievement for a modest British comedy about an alliance between striking miners and gay rights campaigners during the 1984 miners' strike.
But the alliance is striking because of what it tacitly acknowledges about each company's weaknesses.
It's an unlikely alliance: the striking, slightly ditzy Sheba in her flowing, diaphanous clothes; the no-nonsense Barbara, a chain-smoking spinster in sensible shoes.
