Word: consortium
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...days ago there was one Internet. Now there are two. Yesterday morning a consortium of more than a hundred corporations and research universities threw the switch on the Abilene Project, a network of 10,000 miles of fiber optic cable that will serve as the prototype for the high-performance, no-waiting Internet of the future...
...response to this sort of protest across the Ivies, last week the so-called Ivy Consortium met in New York to consider the possibility of a cross-Ivy policy on the subject...
...early days of personal computing, Apple enjoyed a privileged place in University technology. A dozen years ago, Apple and a several universities, including Harvard, were organized in a consortium, according to Franklin M. Steen, director of FAS computer services...
Most members of the overlap group, including Harvard, are also members of the Consortium for Financing Higher Education (COFHE), a Cambridge-based research organization of 31 colleges and universities...
...infallibility. Until September, that is, when word leaked that the firm was in danger of suffering losses so catastrophic they could send the already troubled world financial system into a tailspin. A $3.6 billion rescue package was cobbled together by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and a consortium of 14 U.S. and foreign lenders...