41.   With the mortgage partnership days away from possibly receiving a tender offer, Levine amended the joint development agreement from four years earlier.

42.   Phillips also noted it has now opened discussions with Woodside Petroleum and Shell over a possible joint LNG development at Darwin.

43.   Plans include joint development with Russia of a supersonic cruise missile and other weaponry.

44.   A large part of this is to be achieved through joint development programs between the United Nations and private industries.

45.   A rift between BHP and U.S.-based Phillips Petroleum is delaying their joint development of the massive Bayu-Undan gas fields in the Timor Sea off Darwin.

46.   And a joint economic development project is in the works.

47.   An agreement for joint development would help improve bilateral relations, said Primakov, who arrived in Japan Thursday for a four-day visit.

48.   Anwar will also be going to Washington next weekend in his capacity as chairman of the joint ministerial development committee at the World Bank, the official said.

49.   But Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien said there was no agreement on joint development of current debt relief policy.

50.   China also wants to talk about buying more Saudi oil and the possibility of joint development of a refinery.