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...This is a home run, believe me," exulted Texas Governor Bill Clements. "This is a great day for Texas!" The beleaguered oil-patch state has had relatively few of those lately, but last week it got a potentially Texas-size economic spur. A consortium of 14 U.S. semiconductor firms chose Austin over competing sites in 34 states for its research center, which will spend an estimated $250 million annually. The consortium, called Sematech, for Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology, includes fierce rivals that have joined forces on chip research in the face of bruising foreign competition. Austin's coup could help make...
Although Dean of the Division of Applied Sciences Paul C. Martin '52 declined to give the exact amount of funding Harvard's group, called the New England Consortium for Undergraduate Science Education (NECUSE), is requesting, he said it is applying for several million dollars...
...first U.S. utility to succumb financially to the nuclear-plant cost overruns and environmental battles that have plagued dozens of plants across the country. Even the $2.25 billion default of the Washington Public Power Supply System in 1983 failed to knock out any utilities, largely because WPPSS was a consortium in which the financial burden was shared by 16 companies. But the weight of Seabrook falls hard on Public Service, which owns 35.6% of the plant and is prohibited under New Hampshire law from charging customers for the inoperative plant. The next biggest owner is Connecticut's United Illuminating, with...
That overseas prowess is not dependent solely on sales of such consumer products as BMWs and Bordeaux wine. Other important export categories range from chemicals and pharmaceuticals to industrial machinery and office equipment. Europe's proudest achievement, perhaps, is its new prominence in aerospace. Airbus, the aircraft consortium backed by the governments of France, Britain, West Germany and Spain, has emerged as a major competitor to America's Boeing in the passenger-jet market. Last month Europe confirmed its successful lift-off in the space market by hoisting two communications satellites into orbit atop an Ariane rocket. While...
...permitted not only to visit the remote steelmaking city of Magnitogorsk last summer but also to write three separate columns on his observations for a local Soviet newspaper. In the most striking development of the new academic glasnost, Olin Robison, president of Middlebury, announced in September that a consortium of 18 Northeastern colleges has signed up for a program of undergraduate exchanges planned to begin next year with schools and universities throughout the Soviet Union. Never before has the U.S.S.R. let loose platoons of Soviet students in the U.S. or allowed unchaperoned Americans to study en masse in the Soviet...