This working draft, as the consortium calls it, is maybe not a thing of beauty but is of great value to researchers looking for genes and represents a major accomplishment.

In Guilford, a consortium of preservation and conservation groups representing 2,500 residents, has called for an ordinance regulating road and bridge improvement to help preserve its rural character.

Boeing has joined with several nations to form a consortium called the Sea Launch; it uses the Ukrainian Zenit 3SL to put up commercial payloads.

Financial fire fighting and economic coordination are supposed to be specialties of the Group of Seven, as the consortium of the world's biggest industrial nations calls itself.

Even so, the consortium called a halt - on the disarming principle that the subsidy was not needed anymore.

The group, representing a consortium called the Colorado Alliance of Research Universities, later flew to Washington to sell its ideas there.

The consortium calls itself Dove Parent, apparently a mocking reference to the Blackstone-created buyout entity, Blackhawk.

But in 1995, Morris set up a consortium called the November 5 Group Inc. to split the rake-off.

One such consortium of 22 New Jersey philanthropies called Arts Challenge gave Aljira in Newark the $50,000 to start its graphic design studio.

So in 1995 the major electronics and entertainment companies convened as a consortium called the DVD Forum to create a digital video disc standard everyone could live with.