In 1971 the company joined the Airbus Industrie consortium with a 4.2 percent share.
Google, which was an early bidder and formed a consortium with Intel, fell at the last hurdle.
Diamond is working on the consortium with Ashish Thakkar, whose Mara conglomerate also backed the creation of Atlas Mara.
In 1930, at age 28, Jones retired from competitive golf and formed a consortium with Wall Street financier Clifford Roberts.
Oni plans to join a consortium with a major European operator to bid for new Portuguese spectrum.
The two teams are negotiating with rival journals to publish their descriptions of the genome -- the consortium with Nature of London, Celera with Science of Washington.
Bedford and Courtier came up with a name for the apple, SweeTango, and Courtier called the consortium, with some hubris, Next Big Thing.
"As everyone knows, Voter News Service, a consortium with a good track record, gave out bad numbers that night," he said.
The payments were made between 1995 and 2004 while KBR was working in a consortium with three companies from Japan, France and Italy.
Fiona Rae remembers Hirst, as an impoverished undergraduate in the late 1980s, forming a consortium with two other people to buy three of her paintings for £1,000.
In 1972, in his last major venture, he formed a consortium with Occidental and Getty Oil to acquire a North Sea oil concession.
