91.   This time, Giordano will set up joint ventures with local partners who will help with licensing and leasing new stores.

92.   Those two bidders have each teamed up with local Spanish partners.

93.   Through his local partners, he met George Speight, then the managing director of Fiji Heath, an insurance brokerage.

94.   U.S.-based Nynex Corp. asked President Fidel Ramos to help resolve an interconnection dispute between its local partner and Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co.

95.   Use of local partners also lowers the cost, he said.

96.   While local organizing committees share the costs, the company has twice had to cover tens of millions in expenses local partners had been expected to pay.

97.   With the two casino restaurants, English has licensing agreements with local partners.

98.   P and O Australia cited a lack of progress in negotiations with its local partner over a planned port construction project in southern Vietnam, the report said.

99.   Al Masaood Jewelry Co. is the local partner.

100.   Although the government has opened the economy to foreign investors, it often rejects proposals in areas where India has expertise and usually insists on local partners.