Word: consortiums
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...council also voted to join the Ivy Council—a consortium of student governments from each of the Ivy League schools—on a trial basis until the end of the term, at which time the council will vote to consider fully rejoining...
...government approves, several thousand inhabitants of Eunice, New Mexico are about to get a new corporate citizen: URENCO, the state-owned European consortium whose centrifuge designs have leaked to most of the world's rogue nuclear states. The consortium is revving up to build a new uranium enrichment facility just outside of Eunice not far from the Texas border. But the deal is anything but sealed. The massive project is raising eyebrows among Bush administration officials concerned that a company linked to the spread of nuclear weapons technologies would be operating on U.S. soil...
...past few weeks U.S. regulators have begun processing an application to construct the $1.8 billion plant, which has strong backing from powerful state and federal officials, including Republican Pete Domenici, who is chairman of the Senate Energy Committee. URENCO , an Anglo-Dutch-German consortium, hopes to build in New Mexico as part of Louisiana Energy Services, or LES, an alliance that includes the big American firms Exelon, Duke and Entergy, as well as Cameco, a uranium mining company and Westinghouse, a nuclear fuel manufacturer. If it is built, the plant would produce fuel for nuclear power generation...
...plan meets federal approval, the consortium will eventually install enrichment machines at the New Mexico site worth over $1 billion, nearly all of which would probably be built in Europe to URENCO specifications. The company has said its centrifuge technology will be subject to the strictest safeguards, and has denied authorizing the leaks of any of its technology to rogue states. LES has described the link between URENCO and nuclear proliferation as "long ago and far-fetched at this point...
...relatively tiny purse - simply can't compete. And that's why many industry insiders are calling for a revolution in the way films are funded and distributed. In France, Italy and Germany, new laws pledge more support to films with mass appeal. Fresh alliances such as Indie Circle - a consortium of A-Films (the Netherlands), Cinéart (Belgium), Frenetic Films (Switzerland), Haut et Court (France) and Lucky Red (Italy) - have been launched to help get more films into more territories. Part of the challenge comes from a film culture that has resisted commercialization. In order to grab a bigger...