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...Consortium for the Advancement of private Higher Education will provide grants and technical education Institutions...
...that ordinarily might have difficulty qualifying?soccer, field hockey, team handball?are admitted automatically. The U.S. is also entitled to select "demonstration sports," and has chosen baseball and tennis. With American competitors in such abundance, Wolper thought $200 million would not be unreasonable. Outbidding CBS, NBC and an independent consortium that included Norman Lear, ABC paid $225 million. Including foreign rights, broadcast revenues should exceed $300 million, one-third of which goes to the International Olympic Committee...
Colleges and universities are also trying to send more talent the way of the public schools. Faith Dunne, head of Dartmouth's education department, has helped put together a 15-member Consortium for Excellence in Teacher Education, made up of 15 top private colleges that will use exchange programs to pool resources and attract able students. Says Dunne: "I think we could have better teachers if we got to the point where influential professors would stop discouraging their students from going into elementary and secondary school education...
Securing a buyer for U.P.I, was not easy. The owners offered it first to a consortium of U.S. newspapers, next to the British-based Reuters news agency, then to National Public Radio, before finding controversial new proprietors in June 1982. Buyers Douglas Ruhe and William Geissler had minimal experience in journalism, but plenty in political activism: Ruhe, 39, was twice arrested for civil rights protests in the 1960s, while Geissler, 37, spent almost a year in federal prison for refusing to be drafted during the Viet Nam War. Both had been publicists for the little-known...
...later, Hammer made his first trip. After several subsequent visits, his travels paid off. Occidental (1982 sales: $18.2 billion) has become the first U.S. company to win oil rights from the Chinese in a round of competitive bidding. By early next year, the Los Angeles-based company and a consortium of minority foreign partners expect to begin drilling on two 415-sq.-mi. tracts in the South China Sea. Said Hammer, who celebrated his success in the banquet hall of the Peking Hotel while a Chinese orchestra played Turkey in the Straw: "This is one of the largest unexplored basins...