Word: consortium
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...consortium helped design the detector andconstructed an assembly line at Tufts to producedetector elements, says Mann, who worked full-timeon SSC research...
...industry that once took its lumps together is now finding common cause in areas from public policy to jointly financed advanced research. Ford's McTague, Chrysler's Castaing and their GM counterpart, Arvin Mueller, meet monthly for private dinners in Detroit, overseeing their joint-research programs under a consortium called USCAR, which invests $300 million annually (including $75 million in federal grants) in a range of projects including advanced batteries for electric vehicles, lightweight composite materials for better fuel economy, and environmental improvements on paint and fuel emissions and recyclable parts. No project is more ambitious than the agreement, announced...
...remain against commercial activity. According to Tim O'Reilly, president of O'Reilly & Associates, a publisher experimenting with advertiser-supported ^ Internet magazines, the system could evolve in one of two ways: either entrepreneurs will manage to set up shop on a free-market version of the Internet, or some consortium will take the whole thing over and turn it into a giant CompuServe. "That's an outcome," O'Reilly says, "that would effectively destroy the Internet as we know...
Panelist Donald S. Burke, Director of theMilitary Medical Consortium for Applied RetroviralResearch, in Rockville, Md., discussed the sevenmajor types of HIV viruses found around the worldand their impact on the development of a vaccine...
Washington's flirtation with Asia is also designed to make Europe jealous. U.S. trade across the Pacific is already 50% greater than its transatlantic counterpart, a sizable change from 1980, when the figures were about equal. The European Community knows that APEC could provide the U.S. with a consortium to fall back on in the event of a breakdown in current negotiations over the 111-nation General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, which aims to reduce trade barriers throughout the world. As a Dec. 15 deadline approaches, those talks have bogged down on several issues, especially the European Community...