1.   Analysts question whether the company can survive the loss in August of MCI Communications Corp. as an investment partner.

2.   Banco Wiese has worked with Chucarapi for a year to find an investment partner for the sugar grower.

3.   Ellison already has made good on a plan, announced last month, to line up prospective investment partners, Silicon Valley sources said.

4.   Having a trusted investment partner on the board, Ferri says, is helpful at a start-up.

5.   He is, however, happy to take money from investment partners, so long as the product carries the Virgin name.

6.   His investment partner hosted the Oscars.

7.   Its investment partners, who were expected to contribute the cash, balked at the proposal.

8.   Meanwhile, American business has much more to lose now that Cuba is signing up other Western trade and investment partners.

9.   One defendant, Ensco International, was founded by the Texas financier, Richard Rainwater, the friend and former investment partner of President-elect George W. Bush.

10.   One of the worst things an entrepreneur can do is to underestimate the risks and delay telling investment partners about everything that could go wrong or has gone wrong.