Word: consortium
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...second proposal, championed by Arctic Gas, a consortium of 19 American and Canadian pipeline, oil and utility companies, would bring the gas to U.S. markets entirely overland through 5,450 miles of lines from the North Slope through Canada. Although the $9 billion Arctic Gas plan would cost about $1.2 billion more than the El Paso system, it would also apparently be simpler to operate. Unlike the El Paso proposal, it would require no fleet of special-purpose tankers, no liquefication and deliquefication plants and no complex reshuffling of regional gas supply patterns...
...interests. The prospect does not worry Arctic Gas officials. They emphasize that Canadian firms, having found large deposits of natural gas in the Mackenzie River delta, would not only help to finance the pipeline but also use it to export surplus gas to the U.S. Adds William Brackett, the consortium's American vice chairman: "We've been shipping through the St. Lawrence Seaway for years without any friction between the nations. Besides, if Canada were to close the pipeline for some reason, the U.S. could retaliate easily. Almost all of western Canada's oil goes to eastern...
...South (in contrast to the industrialized North), the LDCs (less developed countries) or the Third World (in comparison with the First World of the industrialized West and the Second World of Communism). The diplomatic vehicle often used by the poor nations is the so-called Group of 77, a consortium of developing countries (actually, there are now 103) within the United Nations...
Expensive Breeder The next generation of atomic reactors, now being developed in a demonstration project by a Government-industry consortium, is called the "fast breeder." Astonishingly efficient (it uses 60% to 70% of the energy in its fuel v. 1% to 2% in today's nukes), and almost alchemic (it actually creates more fuel than it consumes), it would extend nuclear fuel supplies for centuries. But critics are attempting to stop the breeder, arguing that it not only creates hard-to-handle plutonium but also is siphoning enormous amounts of research and development money...
...major plan of the GSAS involves the cooperation of Yale and Princeton graduate schools, both of which have tentatively agreed to form a centralized recruitment consortium with Harvard. If the consortium idea is approved at a meeting of the three schools in New Haven next week, it seems likely that this year's applicants will be the first to file a joint application, which would automatically be considered by all three schools...