Word: consortium
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...they aren't letting go. In the past two weeks 33 universities have signed on to a plan designed by the Fair Labor Association, a consortium of human-rights groups and manufacturers like Nike and Reebok, to come up with a uniform code of conduct for the apparel industry. Though the agreement has won the backing of the White House, a core group of student leaders has joined UNITE in opposing it as inadequate...
According to Kalloch, the Cumberland group worked with an organization called the Interfaith Consortium which buys run-down houses, renovates them, and then puts them up for rental at an affordable cost. The 13 students in Cumberland, whose trip lasted from Sunday to Friday, helped with this renovation process...
...Shockley "traitor" Gordon Moore to found Intel. Under Noyce's shirt-sleeves leadership, it soon produced a landmark memory chip and the so-called computer-on-a-chip, or microprocessor. By 1974 Intel was so successful that Noyce traded day-to-day management for industrywide concerns, like leading a consortium called Sematech to stave off foreign competition. He died...
...pages in a magazine--went on to co-found Netscape and become one of the Web's first millionaires. Berners-Lee, by contrast, headed off in 1994 to an administrative and academic life at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From a sparse office at M.I.T., he directs the W3 Consortium, the standard-setting body that helps Netscape, Microsoft and anyone else agree on openly published protocols rather than hold one another back with proprietary technology. The rest of the world may be trying to cash in on the Web's phenomenal growth, but Berners-Lee is content to labor quietly...
...Because of the current structure of the program, it is questionable whether ROTC would even want to have independent resources at Harvard. Under the Boston Consortium, none of the area collegeshave their own ROTC offices. Cadets from Tufts,MIT, Wellesley and Harvard all participatetogether on MIT's campus. Harvard still hostscertain ROTC activities...