Word: consortium
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...Election 2000 Symposium is sponsored by two groups affiliated with the graduate schools, The Consortium on Global Leadership and Recombyne, a venture capital firm. The program aims to educate voters about the issues in the upcoming presidential election...
They also specify that "a student consortium may refer to itself as 'the Student Consortium on X at Harvard', but may not use the Harvard name or insignia in any other way, especially in ways that suggest it is a permanent student organization...
...candidates, you want to spend more money on education? You won't get many arguments - as long as the cash is flowing into teachers' salaries or textbook purchases, and not into the black hole of high-tech educational tools. That's the word from the Alliance for Childhood, a consortium of early development and education experts, which issued a report Tuesday that sketches a speculative link between increasingly wired classrooms and the rising incidence of childhood obesity and social detachment...
...which it offers management support and from which it requires accountability. "What we do is not only give money but business skills and expertise in marketing, public relations, technology, financial and business management," explains Paul Brainerd, president of Aldus Corp. and founder of Social Venture Partners, a nonprofit consortium for techies who don't merely write checks but also lend their skills...
...Research and development is somewhat of a misnomer in Japan," says Robert Lewis, former associate director of the Tsukuba Research Consortium, a hub of high-tech companies in central Japan. "Most of the money goes to improving an existing product, not to basic research." Even when an inventor comes up with a hot product, the country's strong ethic of subordination of individuals to groups holds sway. Take the case of Aki Komikado, an unassuming sales-and-marketing employee who invented the Tamagotchi digital pet in 1996. The toy craze earned her employer, Bandai, $350 million, but Komikado didn...