Word: consortium
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Real success, however, is not so simple. Last week the Beatles lost control of Northern Songs when a consortium of financial companies added their 14% to Associated's holdings and made a deal in which it will name four of the six directors. Britain's High Court will decide next month on who should pay whom in the Nemperor case. As for Apple, it is too soon to see whether Klein's pruning will produce profits...
Eastern schools, are readying major departments of black studies for the coming year. Eventually, Harvard hopes to help create a Boston-area consortium of university Afro-American resources...
Expanding Mass. The management of Union Oil Co. was understandably reticent about divulging fully what went wrong on Platform A, which it managed in consortium with Gulf, Mobil and Texaco. After getting permission to cut some corners from the U.S. Geological Survey, an arm of the Interior Department that has the responsibility of enforcing federal laws governing drilling, Union Oil went ahead and drilled A21. Having burrowed down 3,500 ft. below the ocean floor, the riggers than began to retrieve the pipe in order to replace a drill bit. At a point during the withdrawal, the drilling "mud," which...
...examine Harvard's investment policies to assess the degree to which these policies retard or promote the economic development of the black people and racial equality in America, with a view to stimulating black economic development in ways analogous to the investment program recently announced by the consortium of American foundations...
...information and opinion." Last week, in an unprecedented ruling, the FCC denied renewal of the license of Boston's WHDH-TV, which is owned (along with AM and FM radio stations) by the Herald-Traveler Corp. Taking over the CBS-affiliated channel will be Boston Broadcasters Inc., a consortium of 30 Boston businessmen and Cambridge intellectuals...