21.   As Starwood grew, Sternlicht mentioned the possibility of turning his friendship with Nanula into a business partnership.

22.   B.N. Patel said his nephew Harish Kumar is in a business partnership that owns four motels in the Los Angeles area, including Universal City Inn on Ventura Boulevard.

23.   Business partnerships often resulted in lawsuits and disputes, most famously with David Bouley, the chef with whom he originally planned to re-open the Russian Tea Room.

24.   But Budget Office analysts are now studying other theories, most notably that small business partnerships were far more profitable than expected and thus generated bigger tax bills.

25.   Demand shifts away from mad-cow-suspected countries to safe countries, creating price fluctuations and necessitating new business partnerships.

26.   Dominicans have also benefited by offering the Colombian drug lords a cheaper alternative to business partnerships with Mexican gangs.

27.   For Internet companies, they consider customer volume and sales growth and evaluate business partnerships.

28.   For Tuvalu, whose residents make their living mostly through fishing, the business partnership has provided a needed cash infusion.

29.   He said he is not taking the romance out of meeting someone new, nor is he driving a stake into potential business partnerships.

30.   Houstonian Cindy Fink, for example, wanted to increase the clientele of her interior design business and get out of a business partnership.