It had set up a consortium with British Telecom, Matsushita and Midland Bank, to help subsidise the cost of set-top boxes.
The National Cancer Institute has set up a consortium of more than a dozen veterinary teaching hospitals to conduct the tests.
He set up a consortium of architects to tackle Bath's war-damaged Georgian property and terraces, which had been blighted by planning uncertainty.
It creates co-ordination problems of its own (because of different technical standards); to address them, a score of big NGOs set up a consortium called NetHope, which spreads the cost of satellite communications and internet links.
The next year, however, Lord Thomson bought the Times, and Scott, in a desperate attempt to keep his old idea alive, set up a consortium to oppose Thomson before the Monopolies Commission and put in a rival bid.
Mr. Ross saves his district money by informally sharing some bus routes with neighboring districts; he tried to set up a consortium with several neighboring districts when he went to Blind Brook eight years ago but could not get it off the ground.
But we soon realised that we couldn't make a significant difference to the problem on our own, so we set up a consortium of seven colleges (Harris, Manchester, Hertford, Keble, New College, St Hugh's and Worcester in addition to ourselves) with the common aim of targeting the sector to encourage more applications from it.
By next year Brussels also aims to have set up a consortium of European companies to buy gas from the Caspian basin, to be shipped to Europe in a new pipeline from Azerbaijan, via Turkey and the Balkans, to Austria from 2013.
We set up a consortium of national experts: four in the area of epidemiology and public health surveillance and one in the area of microbiology of meningococcal disease.
