In 1796 Johnson joined in a venture to start The Monthly Magazine.

Was he actually offering to join in a cooperative venture here?

In 1885 he joined in a venture to provide King Menelik II of Shoa with firearms.

He noted it was the first time that Luk-oil, the huge Russian oil company, has joined in a large-scale venture with Western concerns.

He joined with Morgan Stanley in 1999, in a securities trading and investment banking joint venture.

The commercialization issue last arose publically at Harvard in 1980, when a faculty member proposed that the university join him in a commercial venture on genetic engineering.

Meantime, three architects, all in their 40's, joined in a similar venture in New Rochelle.

But no ally would have joined us in such a venture at the time, and for good reasons.

"Could they be tempted to join in a dangerous venture?"

Western Electric was the first company to join in a Japanese joint venture with foreign capital.