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What makes the question all the more thorny is that it's not a profit-seeking utility seeking the license, but a consortium of hospitals, research centers and a medical school which serve 585,000 patients a year and consistently come up with awesome medical breakthroughs. Moreover, if MATEP is allowed to start up its six 9000-horsepower diesel engines, it can begin offering the seven hospitals and other clients electricity 30 to 35 percent more cheaply than Boston Edison...
Some companies go even farther. The Hewlett-Packard site in Loveland is one example, the underground vault constructed in Rhode Island by a consortium of banks to store electronic data during a nuclear war is a another, and the subterranean vault run for AT&T by Vital Records, Inc, in Raritan N.J. is a third. Isn't that comforting; even after a nuclear war, you'll still get your telephone bill...
...Pentagon has refused to identify the bidders, which include a Texas A&M consortium, a University of Maryland-led group, a Big Ten team headed by the University of Michigas, and solo proposals from Carnegie-Mellon and the Georgia Institute of Technology...
...past 25 years, Boeing of Seattle, Wash., and McDonnell Douglas of St. Louis, Mo., have had a virtual monopoly on sales of passenger jets to U.S. airlines. Last week the American companies sustained a damaging air raid. Airbus Industrie, the European consortium of French, British, West German and Spanish plane builders, announced a $1 billion deal to deliver 28 of its new jets to Pan Am, a longtime Boeing customer. The European aviation industry exulted over the agreement, dubbing it the contract of the century...
...fond of the University. But Stillman mostly chose Harvard because he thought he could trust the University to care for the land and provide the necessary stable environment for forestry and botany experiments. Now Harvard would pull out the money to keep the site in proper shape, and the consortium would have to already endowed so that everyone could use it for free...