Kirsten is her sister, and lives in Andalusia, Alabama, where she owns a flower shop with her husband, who's a lawyer for a big cotton consortium.
Often this reference genome will have been produced in a large-scale 'big-biology' project by a large consortium using long read Sanger-style sequencing or a hybrid approach that mixes long and short reads, but the defining characteristic will be that a great deal of time and expense has gone into preparing the reference.
[C2.] Oil Is Found in a Big Caspian Field A consortium of nine foreign energy companies has found oil in a huge Caspian Sea field and has resumed drilling to determine just how much exists.
Rumours flourished that a rival bid might be made for HCA, but with the family of Bill Frist, the Senate majority leader, playing a big part in the consortium (his father and brother founded HCA) the success of a counterbid seemed doubtful.
With insurance giant AIG, it managed to outmaneuver a big Korean rival, a consortium led by South Korean conglomerate LG Group, for a 40% interest in Hanaro Telecom, Korea's second-biggest high-speed Internet service provider.
Because a private-sector consortium including Bechtel, a big American contractor, had been brought in to improve supplies to the city of Cochabamba and charges were raised to pay for the investment.
Numbers like that are a big part of the reason a consortium of specialty care physicians released a list last year of 45 treatments or tests that doctors should use far less often or not at all.
J.P. Morgan recently handed over a big outsourcing-cum-consulting project to a consortium of three firms, Andersen Consulting, Gemini and CSC.
In the late 1960s, a government-backed consortium of Mexican bankers was looking for a big tourism investment.
But Richard Dodd, of the British Retail Consortium, doubts the government would let them keep a big uplift from booze sales.
