Word: consortium
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...companies themselves. Their goal is "participation,", which is merely another way of describing partial, and probably increasing nationalization of the U.S. and European firms that drill in their territory. At a meeting in Beirut of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), which ended last week, the largest consortium of oil companies, the Arabian American Oil Co., bowed to the inevitable and agreed in principle to sell 20% of its ownership to Saudi Arabia. Aramco's decision will doubtless cause a gusher of further participation concessions, which will increase the economic and political power of the producing nations, most...
...month the Vatican explicitly forbade nuns to discard "distinctive religious garb" for secular dress. Besides the Pope and many of the all-male hierarchy, some sisters are openly opposed to what they consider the excesses of renewal. About 120 of them have organized their views in a group called Consortium Perfectae Caritatis (Association of Perfect Charity). Nevertheless, the new nuns are confident that they are moving with a historical tide. With secessionist Sister Anita Caspary, they maintain that the church "stands to lose the whole community if it stands...
...Consortium. In its most inflexible manifestations, this doctrine has meant, for instance, that a wife must take her husband's name, though she can use her maiden name professionally. Last week, specifically, the Supreme Court upheld a state's right to require a married woman to use her husband's name on her driver's license. Most states allow a husband to sue for loss of consortium if his wife is injured, while only a minority extend a parallel right to the wife when the husband is incapacitated. North Carolina and Missouri even allow a woman...
During the last two months the Chinese government has frequently expressed its concern over Thai involvement in Cambodia. On January 14, the People's Daily of Peking said that participation by "certain Southeast Asian countries" in the U.S.-backed aid consortium for Cambodia contradicted their support for Southeast Asian neutralization as expressed at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on November...
Wiesner. Then, in the case of the SST, I wanted the United States to join the British-French consortium and build the Mach 2 aircraft. There were many reasons why, in my office, we didn't believe a Mach 3 SST made sense, but it ultimately went that route because the vice-president wanted...