Word: consortiums
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Other candidates for director are: Carla M. Okiwage '65, executive director of the Seattle King Country Housing Development Consortium; Philip J. Peters '67, senior physician at the Little Rock Diagnostic Clinic; Harry L.Shipman '69, director of the Center for TeachingEffectiveness at the University of Delaware,Newark; and Karen C. Van Winkle '80, sales managerat Herman Miller in Boston...
...bother with questions. It is the reader who asks those. In structure, the story is a whodunit -- a policeman is obstructed by powerful opponents as he solves the murder of a party girl who is strangled in a Los Angeles office. But the building is owned by a Japanese consortium. The opponents are Japanese businessmen, Japanese gangsters and, it seems, the entire Japanese society...
...Future Generations. Nevertheless, the Emir Sheik Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah ordered the government to write off $5 billion in consumer debts and assume responsibility for an additional $25 billion owed by commercial banks. Despite these obligations, a $5 billion reconstruction loan sought last fall was oversubscribed by a consortium of international banks...
FOOTNOTE: *CNN is owned by a consortium, in which Time Warner, TIME's parent company, has a 21.9% stake...
...Turner's premonition came close to happening: his acquisition of MGM/ UA for $1.4 billion buried him so deeply in debt that he had to be bailed out by a consortium of cable operators (including Time Warner, which owns TIME) that invested $562.5 million in the company in exchange for minority ownership. Turner remained chairman, but he was forced to give cable operators seven seats on the 15-member board and veto power over any decision that would cost the company more than $2 million. It was a major setback for a man who lived by his father's homespun...