Word: consortium
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with their cameras, sound stages and numbers, they saturated the small arena. To add to the sense of journalistic overkill, the press itself was often dogged by three sets of political scientists and dozens of students with notebooks, cameras and tape recorders, all bent on examining-as one consortium of professors from Yale, M.I.T. and Duke has it-whether "the media is the new political power broker...
Senator Tower's office requested that the $2.2 million migrant-worker-program grant be given to the pro-Administration Lower Rio Grande Valley Development Council as opposed to the consortium of OEO CAP agencies. DOL has already announced that the OEO groups have the best proposal. If the Development Council were to receive the grant, there would be a significant plus for the Administration, as OEO's negative voice would be silenced, and the Council's positive feelings towards the Administration could be stressed. DOL has told Tower that the grant will be awarded to Tower's choice. Tower will...
Bizarre Suicide. The government is trying to press Westerners to buy more Iranian oil. Last year, claiming that its profits were being squeezed, the eight-country consortium that buys most of Iran's crude reduced its purchases by 750,000 bbl. a day and turned to cheaper Iraqi, Saudi, and Kuwaiti oil. Premier Hoveida charged the companies with a breach of the 20-year contract with Iran that they signed in 1973. The Shah suggested to the British government (which owns 70% of British Petroleum, the company that leads the consortium) that Iran might not be able...
...such persuasion has failed to increase the consortium's take, but perhaps the new price reduction will. In any case, Iran's oil revenues should pick up as the industrial world's recovery from recession proceeds...
...Medical School's new arrangement with the consortium allows the dean to make recommendations on the IMCI plans, as long as he submits his proposals to the Harvard faculty first. But the faculty must see that it is hypocritical for them as members of a medical school increasingly concerned with the equal distribution of health care to be connected--even unofficially--to a regime that patently ignores its citizens' well-being. Dean Ebert should resign as an ex-officio member of the medical school consortium, citing political reasons...