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...This fall, Harvard and its teaching hospitals invested $200,000 in the creation of the New England Higher Education Recruitment Consortium, an online partnership of 36 academic institutions. The consortium, which is aimed at helping the spouses of faculty members find jobs in the region, offers a centralized database of job openings...
...smaller deals as well. In February, Hyderabad-based drugmaker Dr. Reddy's acquired German-based rival Betapharm for $572 million. A few months later, construction major Punj Lloyd bought Singapore-based SembCorp Engineers and Constructors for $22.5 million. And now electronics manufacturer Videocon is the lead player in a consortium that has offered more than $700 million to buy Korean electronics giant Daewoo Electronics...
...traditional, broader types of research. Genetic mapping is the process by which researchers determine which genes are responsible for putting people at risk for a disease. Tanzi, who identified the first Alzheimer’s disease gene in 1987, is a member of the fund’s Research Consortium. The money that Tanzi received from the fund allowed the purchase of new technology that changes the way researchers look for relevant genes. He added that there would have been no way to get enough money from the federal government to purchase all the technology used in his research...
...exit poll data that will be used by the media on Election Day comes from one source: the National Election Pool (NEP). The NEP is a consortium of six news organizations: the Associated Press, CNN and the news divisions of ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC. It was created in 2003, after a previous consortium of the same news organizations, the Voter News Service (VNS), failed to provide accurate exit poll data in both the 2000 and 2002 general elections...
Last year the Wollemi consortium approached the National Geographic Society for help in publicizing and distributing the plants. In the first two weeks after the society advertised the plants online, it took more than 1,000 orders. The current marketing effort targets the more than 83% of American households that do some gardening and contribute to a $35 billion industry that sells thousands of species a year. Although there's only one Wollemi, its babies may soon be growing all over the world...