It takes a consortium of effort -- from educators, business leaders, workforce development professionals, economic developers and the students themselves -- to build a competent workforce.
Lockheed Martin led a consortium of companies in an effort to develop a commercial mining operation, collecting thousands of nodules from an area of the Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and Mexico as part of an effort that would today cost more than $500 million.
Alongside nature's efforts, a consortium of human-run organizations that include the Hudson River Foundation, New York-New Jersey Bay Keeper, the Harbor School and even the Army Corps of Engineers have worked together to put out a handful of test reefs throughout the Bight.
Various industry efforts, including a consortium of Silicon Valley behemoths, are beginning to grapple with the ethics of deploying algorithms that can have unanticipated effects on society.
Then there is the effort by a consortium of Canadian financial institutions to buy the parent company of the Toronto Stock Exchange, the TMX Group, for 3.8 billion Canadian dollars.
Mr. Meriwether is still in day-to-day control of Long-Term Capital after a rescue effort by a consortium of big banks that is now valued at $3.6 billion.
Answering a public challenge from the industry's Secure Digital Music Initiative -- an effort by a consortium of about 200 companies -- including Microsoft, Sony and the major record labels -- the Princeton professors said last week that they had broken the industry code and that the technology would be vulerable to Internet pirates.
Isabel Nazario, director of the Center for Latino Arts and Culture at Rutgers University, is heading a new effort by a consortium of 24 New Jersey museums, galleries and arts organizations to survey and exhibit the work of artists from groups historically underrepresented in the state's academies, museums and collections.
For instance, the largest effort, Calfed, a consortium of state and federal agencies set up in 1994, seems hidebound by the political pressures to balance water needs, flood control and environmental pressures in the delta.Mr Davis, a cautious soul, has shown some interest in water.
But Citigroup was among a consortium of leading New York banks that led an effort in late December to water down the new guidelines.
He has joined Project Atlas, a new effort in which a consortium of theorists advises schools on a range of issues.
