Word: consortium
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...Anti-Pop Consortium...
...Live celebrates a return to roots, then Anti-Pop Consortium are hip hop uprooted, making the kind of rap that only record store geeks deem safe listening. Rather than following through on the music’s forebears, they stretch it to its outer limits, showing off its capacity for outward expansion. Screw soul, they seem to say—theirs is the sound of extraterrestrial mechs appropriating hip hop for twisted, brilliant experiments...
...Still, for all the complaints that environmentalists cry wolf on non-existent threats, no one offers up bigger howlers than lobbyists describing an attempt to protect the planet as a dire risk to the economy. Twenty years ago, a consortium of trade groups warned that banning CFC's to protect the ozone layer would throw thousands out of work. When CFC's were phased out beginning in 1987, nothing like that happened (except that the ozone layer continued to deteriorate as the atmosphere absorbed CFC's released during years of stalling...
...fact, there were two central demands of last spring’s sit-in—for Harvard to adopt a living wage and also to join the Worker’s Rights Consortium (WRC), an apparel manufacturing monitoring agency...
Karen K. Narasaki is President and Executive Director of the National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium, located in Washington...