To that end, MBA students are encouraged to strike up conversations with strangers.
What you CAN do is put yourself in the best situations to strike up genuine relationships with talented people.
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Meghalaya's enormous forest cover is community-owned, but timber merchants often bypass the local leaders to strike up deals with foresters.
That person was Patti Tate, Sharon's sister, and Statman said the pair went on to strike up a romantic relationship.
"Unlike at a bar, it's not awkward to strike up a conversation because you have something in common, " Solo told ESPN.
Russia may be a friend now, but its tap-twisting history with gas in Europe does not strike up a positive note.
But the business model of the cruise industry is: Strike up the band and hand out the daiquiris, the cruise must go on.
From busy Colva, strike up north to the tiny villages of Majorda and Betelbatim, where a scattering of five-star resorts has actually helped keep smaller-scale shoulder-to-shoulder development at bay.
The goal is to connect you with someone with whom you have enough in common to want to strike up an e-mail correspondence and then quickly meet in person.
The more frequently you see and bump into a colleague, the more likely you are to eventually strike up a conversation, says Dr. Owen-Smith, the lead author of the study.
On auspicious days, villagers throng here to pray, while vendors sell vermillion powder, sweets, beads and bangles and folk musicians strike up their instruments to accompany bhajans (hymns) sung soulfully by wandering mendicants.
The commissioner is inviting MPs and other local leaders to strike up a dialogue with him either in person or in writing and pledges to post responses to his open letter on his website.
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In explaining the stabilising purpose behind its proposed new co-operation with America, Japan has been able to strike up a more intensive discussion than hitherto on security issues with all its regional neighbours, and especially with China.
Richard Offiong's 45th-minute strike lit up a disappointing affair in which both sides failed to spark.
The military said that as of Wednesday, there were 31 men on hunger strike, up from 28 on Monday.
The strike turned up 4 million pieces of fake Microsoft products, plus machines such as replicators and printing presses.
As I write, about 80 people have been arrested on the streets of Madrid, as the general strike hots up.
"The strike opened up all the gates that we wanted to open in terms of developing more aggressive strategies, " says Joseph Guerrisi, a former UPS executive and now a director with Arlington, Va.
Parkin set up strike partner Jackson to give the home side their early lead.
They're beefing up strike forces and task forces and every other force that you can imagine.
For several months studios have been preparing for a strike by ramping up movie production.
It seems more like a pent-up strike meeting than commerce in action, but the fever will not lessen.
But the Pharoahs will have to make do with a patched up strike force to beat Malawi away on Saturday.
Taekkyeon is a traditional Korean martial art that makes use of fluid, rhythmic dance-like movements to strike or trip up an opponent.
Sudden changes in altitude also pushed the strike-rate up.
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Some 3, 500 residential buildings could be hit if there is a strike, and up to 1m New Yorkers may have to hail their own cabs, walk their own dogs and pick up their own dry-cleaning.
She lives a few blocks from the theater and kept its doors open not only when Superstorm Sandy hit last year but also during the city's 2005 subway strike, picking up the actors and crew in her car.
The commander of the detention center ordered the transfer because prisoners participating in the hunger strike had covered up security cameras and blocked windows, making it difficult to monitor their health during a protest that has lasted more than two months, said Navy Capt.
By way of a rebuff to the robotic, slavish activity of their foe, they get to prove their human handiness, not least when Santos and her new pals, defying our expectation of a gargantuan nuclear strike, end up bayonetting the enemy at close quarters, as if this were a Belgian trench in 1917.
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