11.   Hotel companies, too, are forging partnerships with cultural institutions.

12.   His proudest accomplishment so far is forging partnerships with two state agencies to plug abandoned oil wells that threaten important watersheds.

13.   Hoping to forge a partnership with a U.S. firm, Warburg entered negotiations with Morgan Stanley, but saw those talks collapse in December.

14.   In February, Apple forged partnerships with Walt Disney Corp., Adobe Systems Inc. and Digital Village, a tiny U.K. startup.

15.   Industry officials also say it is not cost effective for widely separated cities to forge partnerships aimed at domestic travelers.

16.   It also will let Airbus more easily tap capital markets, add new shareholders and forge partnerships for future projects.

17.   Knox also praised SGS-Thomson for forging partnerships with other companies, since this enables the company to better keep track of what other companies are doing.

18.   Koizumi said his proposed community should forge a partnership with other regions of the world, particularly the United States.

19.   Kaferle said Christ is better suited to forging partnerships with other companies.

20.   Massachusetts lags many states in forging partnerships between both private ventures and resorts and environmentally-minded nonprofit groups.