81.   The company plans to import and distribute oil in Thailand with local partners, the Nihon Keizai newspaper reported.

82.   The GAAF would be its local partner.

83.   The FISCs eliminate the trade-off between management control and market access by granting local partners minority stakes in return for their business assets, such as factories and trucks.

84.   The key, he added, is to develop a lasting relationship with a local partner, not simply a contractual deal.

85.   The most common corporate structure is the joint venture, in which companies share day-to-day operational control with a local partner.

86.   The partners plan to seek equity investments from local partners to distribute the channel and create regional programming.

87.   The project, announced last year, was a joint venture with Marubeni Corp. of Japan and a local partner.

88.   The rest are a collection of partnerships, but Carey insists that in most countries News Corp. has effective management control, despite the ownership stakes of local partners.

89.   They are trying to obtain a work visa while the local partner continues his Harvard education.

90.   This has been true in the New York metropolitan area, where The New York Times and radio station WNEW-FM are the local partners.