Word: consortiums
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...America finally discovered the results of the Nov. 7, 2000 election. The National Opinion Research Center (NORC), funded by a consortium of news organizations, conclusively found that had the votes been counted by the standards that former Vice President Al Gore ’69 desired, he would have lost the election...
...Airbus is built by a consortium of European manufacturers and seats over 300 people in most of its configurations. According to a spokesman for American Airlines, the plane entered service in July of 1988. It was last checked earlier this month, although its last major overhaul was back in December of 1999. The safety of the wide-body A-300 jet was called into question several years ago after one plane crashed upon landing in Taiwan, leading to speculation about the craft's pilot automation systems...
...some say, palpable. "We're working, in a determined way, to bring to reality some of the things we'd worked individually on for a decade without very much success," O'Neill recently told members and guests at the annual dinner of the National Foreign Trade Council--a consortium of U.S. companies promoting free trade that was founded...
...graphics, our covers and our lapels. TV networks accepted an unprecedented administration request that they limit their airing of al-Qaeda videotapes. Fox turned over an hour of prime-time (albeit by bumping the very low-rated "Pasadena") for a special terrorism episode of "America's Most Wanted." A consortium of media groups even held off indefinitely on reporting the results of a study of the controversial 2000 presidential vote in Florida, which threatened to perhaps undermine the president's legitimacy. (Investigating the integrity of democratic elections is apparently unpatriotic while we're busy defending freedom...
Casey said the appointment of WRC Executive Director Scott Nova and the establishment of by-laws to govern the organization have changed the playing field since former University President Neil L. Rudenstine declined to join the consortium...