Word: consortium
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Church of the Four Leaf Clover, the Church of the Fuller Concept, and the Psychedelic Venus Church? Or the Infinite Way, the Faithists, Pragmatic Mysticism, and Soulcraft Inc.? Answer: just a handful of the U.S. denominations described in an unbelievable compendium called the Encyclopedia of American Religions (Consortium Books...
...that Khan got his chance to get into the gas centrifuge plant at Almelo. Owned and operated by a consortium called Urenco, it was administered jointly by Britain, West Germany and The Netherlands. Khan had first come to Holland in 1963 at the age of 27 to enroll in the prestigious Technical University of Delft. He performed well, both there and, later, in the doctoral program at Belgium's Catholic University in Louvain...
Although the $85 million dollar NASA-funded project has been directed by a consortium of four groups--CRA, MIT's Center for Space Research, Columbia University and the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland--the main impetus for the mission has come from 60 Garden St. Giacconi is the overall director of the Einstein Observatory, while scientific responsibility rests with Harvey Tannenbaum, an associate of the Harvard College Observatory...
Next, the Gulf Organization for the Development of Egypt, a consortium of oil-rich Persian Gulf states that philanthropically pumped $1.7 billion into Egypt last year, advised Cairo that it was scrapping all pending projects. Finally, the Arab Organization for Industrialization, which was set up in 1975 to produce everything from helmets to helicopters with Egyptian manpower and $1.4 billion in financing from Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, abruptly halted its operations. As a result, 16,000 Egyptians stand to lose their jobs...
...Last Monday, would require that all Americans, regardless of income or age, be covered. He has backed away from his earlier advocacy of making the Government the basic insurer. Instead, he would inject competition into the scheme by letting people choose whether they wanted to be protected by a consortium of commercial insurance companies, by Blue Cross-Blue Shield, or by joining independent group health plans or health maintenance organizations (H.M.O.s). Employers would be liable for the premium payments, estimated at $11.4 billion a year more than they pay now, but they could require workers to provide...