Word: consortium
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...failed. And in June, Energy Department investigators reported that employees were living it up at SSC's Dallas headquarters, freely spending taxpayers' money on liquor, lavish parties and office decor ($56,000 went for potted plants). Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary fired the University Research Association, the nonprofit consortium running the project, for failure to track costs and schedules...
...without help, says Erich Bloch, former head of the National Science Foundation: "There's no single country, including ours, that can afford such a big project." In the future, U.S. scientists will have to rely more on international partnerships. A model is the Switzerland-based CERN laboratory, a consortium financed by 18 countries that is building its own giant accelerator. The large hadron collider will be only 40% as powerful as the SSC, but has a good chance of doing comparable science. That won't be much consolation, though, to the people who converged on Waxahachie expecting to take part...
...Mediation Service, to be implemented inJanuary, was recommended in a report last springon the state of race relations at Harvard by theNegotiations Project, a consortium of conflictresolution experts sponsored by the Law School...
Last month 68 utilities, from New York City's Consolidated Edison to San Francisco's Pacific Gas & Electric, formed a consortium to purchase $500 million worth of solar panels over the next six years. These utilities, which serve 40% of the country's electric customers, hope solar power can help replace aging plants that will begin phasing out by the end of the decade. Says Scott Sklar, director of the Solar Energy Industries Association, which represents more than 500 U.S. solar-equipment makers: "This will allow the solar industry to double its manufacturing capacity and acquire new capital to ramp...
...average SAT score for Black students in the Class of 1995 at Harvard was 1290, while the average white student earned a 1400, according to a confidential report compiled by the Consortium on Financing Higher Education, a group of 32 private colleges and universities...