The dispute threatens to disrupt the financing each plane maker taps to develop aircraft.
One of Amsterdam's selling points, according to agencies based there, is that it is an inexpensive base: They say the city's multicultural work force can be tapped to develop single, global advertising campaigns.
Crowds are now being tapped to develop mobile applications before they reach consumers.
Venturi was tapped to develop this electric snowcat after Prince Albert II, the reigning monarch of Monaco and a noted environmental advocate, returned from a trip to Antarctica in 2009.
Lansing Manufacturing was tapped to develop the drive units while Hilliard worked to improve the electronic components.
Last month, for example, Gov. George E. Pataki and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg tapped CUNY to develop a campus on Governors Island -- a "Harvard in the harbor," as the mayor recently put it.
Even Lewis M. Eisenberg, the financier whom Donald T. DiFrancesco, then the acting governor, tapped last year to develop a plan for redeveloping the arena site, said he was pleased that the administration of Gov. James E. McGreevey was emulating his plans to create a major entertainment and commercial site in Bergen County.
CORRECTION: A previous version of this story stated incorrectly that Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida tapped Paul Wolfowitz to develop his foreign policy strategy.
But while Razer will tap into THX to develop its business, THX itself will also continue to build its own standalone projects.
A decade ago, for instance, his firm helped finance Trimeris, the company that tapped university research to develop Fuzeon, the first of a new class of AIDS drugs.
