However, unlike those projects, ours is not consortium-based and our position as a third party to the data producers imposes additional considerations that must be addressed: Data identification and collection.
The discount for books of 20 tickets was financed by the government, not the consortium.
Could the problem be that "family friendly" is being construed too narrowly, connoting a traditional family, when that was not the consortium's intent?
And team they were — not a consortium of superstars, but a smooth blend of rising stars and nonstars, of rejects and never-beens, modestly compensated by Yankees and Red Sox standards, but hard-working and well-anchored by a staff of awesome starting pitchers, all in their 20s.
The results imply that not all consortium-led standardization activities were perceived to increase inter-firm competition.
Foreign firms lag behind Chinese firms in not joining consortiums or enlarging the number of partners in their networks, suggesting a 'do it alone' stand.
In Germany, for instance, a "liquidity consortium", not the Bundesbank, appraises the solvency of stricken banks and lends them funds if they look salvageable.
As if that were not enough, the consortium continues to be besieged by the effects of bitter political disputes between New York City, which owns Kennedy, and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates it under a lease.
Mr Crean said it was not in the consortium's financial interest to attract heavy goods: "Because of its weight, a lorry damages the road infrastructure as much as 100 times more than a car.
