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...years ago, the Justice Department began its investigation of the Overlap Group, a now-defunct organization of 23 colleges which included all the Ivy League institutions as well as private colleges like Amherst, Williams, and Bowdoin. The group met annually to decide on financial aid offers to students accepted by more than one of the member institutions...
...investigation concluded last May when the Ivy League members of Overlap, under pressure from the Justice Department, signed an agreement known as "the consent decree." The decree imposed a gag rule on financial aid offices, effectively ending the practice of jointly deciding aid awards...
...Overlap, financial aid offers rarely differed by more than a few hundred dollars, aid officers say. But now both students and high school counselors say that students entering college this fall, the first group to be affected by the decree, have seen aid offers that regularly differ by thousands of dollars...
...Three had the resources to invent on its own the car battery of the future, explains John Wallace, director of electric vehicles for Ford. But each company had at least one poorly funded battery research project under way, which, if linked with the others, could be coordinated to eliminate overlap and speed a breakthrough. So Ford, GM and Chrysler joined forces and asked the government to match their efforts dollar for dollar. "We agreed to cooperate on batteries," added Wallace, "but compete on vehicles...
Several members of the current committee and the proposed one would probably overlap, Dowds says, adding that John Shattuck would likely continue to represent Harvard's interests on a permanent advisory board...