11.   Converting their interests in the private partnerships through which they own their holdings into a public corporation via a traditional REIT would result in a rather large tax liability.

12.   Colleagues say Corzine favors finding a strong consensus on whether the firm should remain a private partnership of sell itself in a public offering.

13.   Even Goldman, the only major private partnership and perhaps the most prized jewel in the Wall Street crown, may have to act.

14.   He was a founder of the now disbanded PaineWebber Development Corp., which innovated the use of raising private partnership funds to bankroll specific biotech research projects.

15.   Hedge funds are private partnerships, available only to rich people and institutions, that typically use more aggressive investment strategies than mutual funds aimed at the mass market.

16.   Her emphasis is on the nature of a company that remained a private partnership even as every other major investment house became a publicly traded corporation.

17.   Hedge funds are private partnerships that invest in global financial markets, often borrowing money to increase their positions in these markets and boost returns.

18.   Kansas City parks department officials say they are not opposed to some type of private partnership.

19.   Once the emotional decision was made, it was an institutional admission that private partnership was not the best business model.