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Most members of the overlap group, including Harvard, are also members of the Consortium for Financing Higher Education (COFHE), a Cambridge-based research organization of 31 colleges and universities...
...infallibility. Until September, that is, when word leaked that the firm was in danger of suffering losses so catastrophic they could send the already troubled world financial system into a tailspin. A $3.6 billion rescue package was cobbled together by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and a consortium of 14 U.S. and foreign lenders...
...panel charged with investigating services to the aged. Within a year, Friedman and others on the panel had created a model system of programs to replace the one that had failed the hapless women. But in 1992, budget cutbacks forced its cancellation. Friedman quickly countered by launching ACE, a consortium of six agencies that agreed collaboratively to close the gap in services the county would no longer provide. Trained by the agencies they work for, volunteers perform many tasks--from phoning shut-ins to assisting in the mediation of disputes or investigating allegations of abuse in board-and-care facilities...
...joined the Audubon Society's Pilchuk chapter, named for a mountain near Everett, Wash., discovered a talent for tactics and alliances and soon became Pilchuk's paid director. Recently she has prowled the halls of Congress, wheelchair and all, for the Forest Water Alliance, a consortium of 21 environmental groups...
Bechtel got on the map in a place that was almost off it: Black Canyon, Nev. With the Depression raging in 1931, Bechtel's father helped organize a consortium called Six Companies to tackle the massive engineering job that became known as Hoover Dam. The consortium bid $49 million and made a profit...