Word: consortium
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Boeing has held "substantive" talks with Germany's Deutsche Aerospace and has met with British Aerospace PLC, two members of Airbus Industrie, the European consortium that has emerged as the U.S. firm's only real rival. The consortium would be pre-empted from building its own superjumbo if one or more of its team enter a deal with Boeing...
...Russians are tops is rocketry. Now they've teamed up with Lockheed to market their skills. A joint venture between the aerospace firm and Russia's Khrunichev Enterprise will sell launch services to the West. About 60% of U.S. commercial launches are now handled by Europe's Arianespace consortium...
...consortium of Ivy League and traditionally Black or Hispanic colleges are coming together in order to improve minority representation in academia...
...consortium, which is called the Leadership Alliance, plans to fund summer research programs for minority students, starting this summer...
...government to do more. Many even call for a type of national industrial policy on the scale of Japan's powerful Ministry of International Trade and Industry. While such direct intervention is a long shot, Washington has given the industry a big boost through formation of the Sematech consortium. Created by Congress in 1987, Sematech is a research-and-development group financed on a fifty-fifty basis by the Pentagon and a group of 12 U.S. electronics companies, including Intel, Motorola and IBM. Based in Austin, Sematech set out to restore U.S. dominance in advanced chipmaking equipment, like circuit-printing...