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...lean-back comfort of a train meets the door-to-door convenience of a car. Automobile travelers would be able to key in their destination, flip open a magazine and leave the actual driving to ALVINN. Last October the DOT committed $160 million to an Automated Highway System research consortium, which includes the C.M.U. team. A European coalition is working on similar technology called Prometheus; Japanese automakers are also tinkering with prototypes...
This is the fifth consecutive year that the number of applications increased and the first year that the College used the Common Application, a form which can be used to apply to a consortium of schools...
...consortium of governments today announced the arrests of 88 alleged drug distributors -- 60 in the U.S. -- and the seizure of $52 million and nine tons of cocaine as a result of an international, two-year long probe of worldwide money laundering. The probe -- called "Operation Dinero" and conducted by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and officials from Italy, Spain and Britain -- also found links between the Italian Mafia and the Cali cartel in Columbia. Along the way, agents seized paintings by Rubens, Picasso and Reynolds from drug smugglers. The DEA used a private bank in the British West Indies...
...American public, surprisingly keen on some form of health insurance reform, blames the Republican Party more than President Clinton or Democrats for failing to deliver in 1994, according to a new poll by Newt Gingrich's favorite pollster. But the survey -- conducted by Frank Luntz for a consortium of major hospitals, managed-care companies and pharmaceutical firms that actively opposed the Clinton plan -- says the public would still favor a GOP-backed plan, sight-unseen, over any new Clinton initiative, 44 to 32 percent. Although few people expect Republicans to deliver anything next year, the poll indicates there's still...
...Crimson had in mind when it first reported Mansfield's ideas, unchallenged and unquestionably accepted, earlier that year ("Buell Letter Warms of Grade Inflation," news story, Jan. 15, 1993), or when it later publicized the findings of a confidential study obtained from some unknown source-- a study by the Consortium on Financing Higher Education (COFHE) issued to member institutions in December, 1991 that analyzed admissions rates and SAT scores according to racial categories ("Report Discloses SATs, Admit Rate," news story...