Word: consortiums
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They are among the richest families in Colombia, but to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, they are the new kings of cocaine, patriarchs of a criminal consortium more disciplined and protected from prosecution than the Sicilian Mafia and now bigger than the Medellin cartel...
...deep into Mexico. The Rodriguez Orejuelas are generally considered partners in Santacruz ventures, but they sometimes appear to operate independently. Their cousins, the Orjuela Caballero brothers, are also major dealers in Los Angeles. DEA agents say the Urdinola brothers work somewhat independently from the rest of the Cali consortium, with their own trafficking and money- laundering organizations across the U.S. They are linked to large lab operations in the northern Cauca Valley and, according to DEA intelligence, are suspected of assassinating a number of Colombians...
...stretches of the Old West at a pace compatible with 21st century business. The winner of the 50-year franchise for the $5.5 billion project: Texas TGV, an alliance of 19 engineering firms and financiers from North America and France, where high-speed rail travel is a commonplace. The consortium promises a 1 1/2-hour Dallas-to-Houston run by 1998 (the trip now takes four hours by car). Opposing the move is Dallas-based Southwest Airlines, which foresees government bailouts, high ticket prices and eventual failure for the futuristic choo-choo. If it is wrong, Southwest may have a hard...
...Professor of Electoral Politics Shirley Williams and others at the Kennedy School founded Project Liberty--an international consortium to help the fledgling democracies to adapt to capitalism and to reorganize political and educational institutions...
...addition, administrators and scholars are talking with faculty from area universities about establishing a graduate-level women's studies consortium. Officials say the program, which would offer the first women's studies graduate classes in the country, will attract more scholars to Radcliffe...