Word: consortium
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...pollution. Without the cleansing flow of tides into and out of the lagoon, the buildup of sewage and agricultural runoff would become intolerable. In 1982 the Italian government turned to a group of more than two dozen design, engineering and construction companies, mostly Italian, known as the New Venice Consortium. After five years of study, the consortium's engineers came up with a novel design for a flexible seawall that could be raised or lowered at will...
...Kroks will be joined by the Princeton Tigertones and the Yale Whiffenpoofs. The Interfaith Hunger Appeal, a consortium of religious charities, will sponsor the concert, which is set for World Food Day. Actor Tony Randall will host the concert...
...locate potential graduate students, Harvard subscribes to the National Name Exchange, a consortium of 27 colleges that exchange names of minority students each year, and the Minority Locator Service, which is a listing of minorities who have taken the appropriate graduate school admissions tests...
...implications for a whole area of technological development. Japan Railways Group (JR), the leader in the Japanese development, uses a design that relies on magnets made with superconductors, the extraordinary materials that carry electrical currents without resistance. The West German model, known as the Transrapid and built by a consortium that includes Thyssen Henschel, Messerschmitt, Bolkow-Blohm and Krauss Maffei, uses conventional electromagnets. The West Germans stopped using superconductors in 1979, convinced that the technology was out of reach. Thus, if the Japanese can get their design into marketable shape soon, they could build a lead in the vital field...
...tests on a 20-mile track with loops at both ends at Lathen, near the Dutch border. A previous model, the TR-06, has already run the straightaway at 256 m.p.h.; the TR-07 is designed to reach 300 m.p.h. Most impressive of all, though, is the Transrapid consortium's push to break ground on two major projects, the Los Angeles-Las Vegas link and a 95-mile Hamburg-Hannover line...