In January, it was one of a small consortium of private equity firms that gambled $31.3bn to buy the world's biggest casino company, Harrah's.
Compaq is a member, with Microsoft, of the DTV Team, a small consortium of technology companies that has been trying to move the computer industry into the television business.
Yet London can lay claim to the publication of the first of Márai's works in exile, Peace in Ithaca in 1952, courtesy of a small consortium of Hungarians: Márai's fate for the next 30 years.
The Homeless Alliance and the Community Initiatives Foundation, directed by Sister Judith, are part of a small consortium of agencies that is trying to keep those ineligible for FEMA assistance from becoming the homeless.
When asked what precisely such a discipline would teach, Mr. Gore paused, chuckled and then referred the question to Dr. Neil Halfon, a professor at the University of California at Los Angeles who directs a small consortium of universities exploring the field.
Think about that previous paragraph again: a billionaire based in a tax haven, Pessina, and a small consortium of wealthy investors and funds, represented by KKR, pick up a 158-year-old company employing around 70,000 Britons.
And any hope of a pay rise for their long days is now a distant dream.As for the cases that are turned away, the judge's ruling in September would send them to the Office of Regional Council, a small consortium of lawyers who do pro bono work.
Some are also forming small consortiums to develop their own smuggling routes through parts of the Balkans.
Ideally, a small consortium, including representatives of major international organizations, could take leadership and liaise with major institutions involved in influenza surveillance and research to develop a feasibility study and roadmap to achieve this goal.
We're the smallest consortium member, and punching above our weight.
