And during the period the consortium has worked together, government support has been drying up.

The consortium works on the alliance model, in which financial risks and incentives are shared among all partners.

An international consortium led by Japan has been working on the rice genome since 1997 and expects to finish later this year.

At the moment a consortium of several company are working on a free implementation of the above parameters.

Whether the consortium will work is open to question.

He said the consortium would work not just with schools but with other clinics where young women might go for reproductive health care.

Indeed, a consortium of Northeastern states is working on price incentives to that end.

Less than 1,000 are believed to exist worldwide; an international consortium of conservation groups has been working to save the remaining population.

The consortium has been working for years to design a deal that would allow its members to bring their profits out of the Soviet Union.

Often, it is not just one contractor, but a consortium of several contractors working together.