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Some of the savings offered by independent exchanges are negated by extra costs--including commissions and membership fees. Some firms have eliminated the middleman by forging industry consortiums, such as Covisint, an automotive-supply exchange owned by six of the world's largest carmakers. But participants in consortiums run the risk of giving away buying and selling secrets to competitors...
With 19 members including 10 faculty members, three unionized employees, two administrators and four students, the breadth of the committee’s membership alone makes it unique...
...American readers tired of reading about John Walker, American Taliban may be surprised to learn that he has an Australian counterpart. The Sydney Morning Herald reports that Aussie David Hicks, currently in Northern Alliance custody, may soon be on his way back home to face trial for his membership of al Qaeda. The paper notes that Australia may have trouble coming up with laws under which to charge Hicks. "One problem was that when Mr. Hicks went to Afghanistan, the Taliban had the tacit support of the U.S. Government...
...said PSLM members were more concerned with the committee’s membership and did not want to make the report deadline a sticking point...
...around railroads, restaurant chains and retail outlets, mostly in his native Mexico. He also controls TELEFONOS DE MEXICO, the country's leading telecom, which last year spun off a wireless subsidiary. Slim, 61, rescued the sinking Internet service provider Prodigy in 1997, adding a Spanish interface and helping boost membership past 3 million from fewer than 200,000. Not bad for a guy who says he is afraid...