Word: consortiums
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...England whose palmtops are especially popular outside the U.S. The 12.5-oz. device is the Psion 5mx ($549, list) and runs on a clever 32-bit operating system called Epoc, which has legions of devotees, just like Palm's OS. Epoc, you should know, was developed by a consortium called Symbian (which includes Nokia, Ericsson and Motorola), and is being positioned as the standard for next-generation cell phones--a distinct possibility since those manufacturers produce 80% of the world's mobile phones. That's probably why Microsoft referred to Psion as its "No. 1 global threat" in an internal...
Some criminologists, including Alfred Blumstein, director of the National Consortium on Violence Research, say Donohue and Levitt don't adequately factor in other variables, including the strong economy and crime-prevention measures. But if their research is proved correct, the duo say, crime stats should slide further over the next 20 years...
South Africa passed a law last year that gives the Ministry of Health discretion to authorize parallel importing and compulsory licensing in critical situations. But a consortium of 40 drug companies--about a third of them American--filed a suit that has kept the law tied...
...owner of this property recently received an award for his efforts in the preservation of open space. The award was given by the Southern New England Forest Consortium and the Rhode Island Chapter of the American Planning Association. In presenting the award, the director of the Consortium said "Over the past 20 years this owner has lovingly developed over 300 acres of land abutting the ocean and the Trustom Pond Wildlife Refuge...
...hard to have it both ways in somerespects...Here you have a student advocacy groupwhich is intimately tied up with the collegeadministration," Gomes says. "Since it had to beboth a consortium and advocacy group dealing withmoney that [belongs to Harvard]...taking a strongadvocacy line is a rather delicate enterprise...