Word: consortium
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This divide-and-conquer energy diplomacy is already yielding political and economic dividends for the Arabs. In Japan, a consortium of bankers said that they would go ahead with a loan of $30 million to Abu Dhabi, supposedly to build roads and hospitals. European banks had refused to make a similar loan because they feared that the money would really be used to finance the war against Israel. But the Japanese bankers, who are heavily influenced by the Tokyo government, evidently felt that they were in no position to refuse: Japan has to import nearly all its oil, 82% from...
...Secretary of State, withdrew an offer of U.S. aid for the Aswan High Dam. Appropriately enough, it was arranged by an Egyptian-born Lebanese: reddish-haired, bespectacled Roger Tamraz, 34, a Harvard Business School graduate who heads Kidder, Peabody's Mideast office. He plucked the contract from a consortium of 16 European firms that had signed a preliminary agreement to build the pipeline in 1971. Says Tamraz: "It was straight out of the golden age of merchant banking, before accountants and clerks took over so much...
When the Committee to Review the Department of Afro American Studies submitted its report to the Faculty in October 1972, it recommended that the Faculty establish the DuBois Institute as a "consortium endeavor with black and other colleges and universities throughout the nation...
...Leonard Committee received a memo from Martin L. Kilson, professor of Government, suggesting the consortium recommendation be dropped. When it makes its report, the committee will propose organizing the Institute solely within Harvard at the outset. Leonard said that once DuBois is established, it may become a collaborative effort with other schools...
Once M ore W ith Feeling: All people of goodwill can support the farm workers in their non-violent resistance to the Neanderthallic conditions imposed on them by the Grower-Teamster consortium, by 1) Boycott table grapes, starting now! 2) Contribute money to help feed the workers who now will miss the few months when they can earn any wages. The money you send will be used for basics: food, clothing, medicine. Their need is staggering. 3) Continue to boycott iceberg lettuce and A & P Stores...