Word: consortium
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...generally backed Touré, but their incomes from bananas, rice and pineapple farming have steadily decreased. The country (about the size of Oregon, with 4,000,000 people) contains one of the world's largest bauxite deposits, and has signed a $180 million agreement under which a Western consortium will mine and market the ore starting next year. But most hotels in Conakry normally do not serve lunch, for the simple reason that there is not enough food. At least 600,000 Guineans have fled into exile, many to neighboring countries. That alone is enough to make a ruler...
Seven Massachusetts universities have joined together as the New England Air Pollution Consortium and with an initial grant of $19,000 from the National Air Pollution Commission (NAPCC), plan to set up programs for education and study in the field of air pollution...
Harvard University, Boston University, Lowell Technological Institute, M. I. T., Northeastern University, Tufts University, and the University of Massachusetts are the initial members of the consortium, and will each send a representative to sit on its Board of Directors...
...consortium plans to offer coursesin air pollution control at the graduate and undergraduate levels, joint seminars, public forums, summer workshops and symposia, and faculty training programs...
...ideas are nebulous, but we are working at them, and we are a very excited group," Dade W. Moeller, professor of Engineering in Environmental Health and temporary chairman of the consortium's board of directors, said yesterday...