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Although it has sold most of its interests in Ecuador, Texaco has not been content to leave the developing world alone. In 1991 it became the lead operator in a multinational consortium of oil companies searching for natural gas off the coast of Burma...
...precision timepieces, army knives, downhill skiing, Heidi and William Tell. Hogwash! The Swiss are the people who do business with and protect organized crime, petty dictators, drug dealers and, simply, fiscal terrorists. If the people in power really wanted to do the right thing, it would be easy. The consortium of banks and government would allocate a certain sum of money (far less than the $7 billion figure you mentioned, of course), set up a commission to screen the recipients, prepare a list of survivors and first-generation children, seek information on financial need and disburse all the money...
...bouncing along in Chelsea, Michigan. General Motors is outfitting a convoy of 10 Buick LeSabres that are scheduled to make a test run next year on a modified stretch of I-15 outside San Diego. Five leading Japanese automakers, meanwhile, are members of a government-led consortium that turned a four-mile stretch of new expressway near the site of the 1998 Winter Olympics into a smartway proving ground...
Radcliffe College seeks to support and study the work of women both through its educational programs and its Institutes for Advanced Study. Its educational programs include the Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies, the world-renowned Radcliffe Publishing Course, the Radcliffe Seminars and abundant programs designed for undergraduates such as Education for Action, the Harvard and Radcliffe Science Alliance and the Radcliffe Research Partnership Program, to name just a few. The college also provides numerous fellowships and grants that fund student projects, from senior theses to international travel...
Designed to run on a range of palmtops from various manufacturers (but not the Pilot), Windows CE will bring a Windows 95-like environment to PDAs, allowing for common software development and communication. Bill Gates and friends have lined up a consortium of manufacturers to use Windows CE as the platform of choice for their PDAs...