31.   The Commission wants permission from the member states to widen the terms of its mandate to negotiate a partnership agreement with Russia and other former Soviet republics.

32.   An Andersen partner is forbidden by the partnership agreement from defecting with colleagues and clients to a competitor, according to someone who has seen the contract.

33.   An Esplanade partnership agreement entitled Hirsch to a share of any proceeds Symington received as property manager of the Esplanade.

34.   And they are doing so largely by rigorously invoking clauses signed as part of partnership agreements.

35.   Believing Dreamworks Interactive could make the highest quality software and do a far more extensive consumer marketing job than Scholastic, Ms. Forte signed a partnership agreement.

36.   A partnership agreement reached last July with M.A. Commerciale SRL, an Italian apparel manufacturing company, is allowing him to try to raise his profile here.

37.   Brown and Coleman sued Jones for breaking their partnership agreement and are now seeking to enforce what they claim is the settlement.

38.   But Judge Wood ruled that the partnership agreement allowed SSP to exercise control and declined to issue an injunction.

39.   But Ryder said CNA continues to think it is better to negotiate job security through collective bargaining rather than partnership agreements.

40.   But these deals are usually portrayed as partnership agreements or strategic investments, and they usually take the form of a direct investment by the larger company.