Noun, : In a wrongful death action the surviving spouse commonly seeks damages for loss of consortium. From Dictionary.com.
"What will be needed in the consortia will be the nitty-gritty skills of commissioning, delivery and working across sectors," she says. From Wordnik.com. [NHS cuts: managers in the line of fire] Reference
The name "GP consortia" to represent groups buying services should be scrapped, and renamed "NHS Commissioning Authorities", the report said. From Wordnik.com. [Evening Standard - Home] Reference
The name "GP consortia" to represent groups buying services should be scrapped, and renamed "NHS Commissioning Authorities", their report said. From Wordnik.com. [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
Even if they form 'consortia', as government ministers suggest, how many of Britain's. From Wordnik.com. [Socialist Party Main leads] Reference
First, expensive Primary Care Trusts will be replaced by "consortia" of GPs, which will take control of 80 per cent of the NHS's £100-billion-plus budget. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Twenty-eight firms are participating in the new consortia. From Wordnik.com. [Technology For Economic Growth A Report Part 1 Of] Reference
The consortia have some 27 wells planned in total by 2009. From Wordnik.com. [Energy profile of Saudi Arabia] Reference
Foster interdisciplinary consortia for employment services. From Wordnik.com. [Fact Sheet On Initiative To Improve Economic Opportunities] Reference
Facilitate the establishment of small scale mining consortia. From Wordnik.com. [Index] Reference
The consortia need to be formalized and then actually established. From Wordnik.com. [Venezuela To Amp Up Oil Output] Reference
EPA will also provide grants to tribes and tribal consortia for this work. From Wordnik.com. [Commitments To Native Americans In Fy2001 Budget] Reference
Also, the national consortia will address the technology needs of students with disabilities. From Wordnik.com. [Vice President Announces Grants To Train New Teachers] Reference
It smacks of an industry consortia response and not a consumer-experience oriented one. reply. From Wordnik.com. [Top Developer Reveals Android Market’s Meager Sales] Reference
Partnerships and consortia in exploration and drilling opps in the Gulf are largely unfettered. From Wordnik.com. [GOP Senator Called Out On China-Cuba Oil Myth -- By Fox News] Reference
Finally, a consortia of NGOs in a country can be used for seed retrieval and subsequent exchange. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 5] Reference
The cables are typically owned either by specialized cable operators or consortia of telecom companies. From Wordnik.com. [Telecoms In Asia Take Limited Hit] Reference
This consortium can serve as a model for federal consortia funded to advance other critical technologies. From Wordnik.com. [Technology For Economic Growth In America] Reference
Isolation and characterization of oligotrophic acido-tolerant methanogenic consortia from a Sphagnum peat bog. From Wordnik.com. [Implications of current species distributions for future biotic change in the Arctic] Reference
It is conceivable that universities could generate further interfacing through their own consortia and networks. From Wordnik.com. [Campus climate action in the United States] Reference
Research in consortia, supply chain and peer networks, or through grants to academic researchers and industries. From Wordnik.com. [Contributor: Toxics Use Reduction Institute] Reference
A mix of large and smaller urban areas will be selected to participate, as well as rural school districts and consortia. From Wordnik.com. [Fact Sheet On Education Opportunity Zones] Reference
International consortia of energy companies have entered into production sharing agreements (PSAs) to develop the resources. From Wordnik.com. [Energy profile of Sakhalin Island, Russia] Reference
And generally it requires that consortia be assembled comprising technology companies, telecom operators, government, banks etc. From Wordnik.com. [Questions & Answers - Ravi Venkatesan] Reference
Two competing bidders - separate consortia of Bharti Realty and Unitech - were disqualified on technical grounds, Mr. Arora added. From Wordnik.com. [DLF Wins Gurgaon Land Deal] Reference
Academic consortia tend to be superstructures, floating above member universities without really embedding them in a tighter network. From Wordnik.com. [What Universities Can Learn From Airline Alliances] Reference
The history of media and advertising industry consortia and coalitions, as I am too painfully aware, is one of failure and rejection. From Wordnik.com. [Jack Myers: Perspectives on the Coalition for Innovative Media Measurement] Reference
DoE, working with other agencies, will encourage industry R&D consortia in an effort directed at reducing pollution and manufacturing waste. From Wordnik.com. [Technology For Economic Growth In America] Reference
NIST has launched, since January, three new consortia in the areas of biosensors, aerospace alloys, and advanced processing of polymer blends. From Wordnik.com. [Technology For Economic Growth A Report Part 1 Of] Reference
His idea, he says, is an antidote to "intensive industrial farming, carried out by an ever decreasing number of highly mechanised farming consortia". From Wordnik.com. [Greens living in ivory towers now want to farm them too] Reference
So these consortia do not really bring that most global of sectors -- tertiary education -- up to date with the flexible forms of the commercial sector. From Wordnik.com. [What Universities Can Learn From Airline Alliances] Reference
We'll support industry-led consortia and dual-use technologies, and promote efforts to break through with commercial uses of formerly defense technologies. From Wordnik.com. [Remarks By The President To Employees At Westinghouse] Reference
Indeed, four different U.S. - Japanese consortia are working to develop large-scale integrated circuits for the digital decoders that operate inside the receivers. From Wordnik.com. [The Race For Hdtv] Reference
Lansley's plan to scrap the 152 PCTs in England and hand commissioning instead to 35,000 GPs, through an unknown number of consortia, could clearly wreck collaboration. From Wordnik.com. [Pickles's localism is not what it seems] Reference
Industry consortia (including universities and government laboratories, where appropriate) will be the preferred performers of such R&D, to assure its commercial relevance. From Wordnik.com. [Technology For Economic Growth In America] Reference
At about the same time in higher education, consortia emerged, with ASEA-Uninet being established in 1994, Universitas 21 in 1997 and the World Universities Network in 2000. From Wordnik.com. [What Universities Can Learn From Airline Alliances] Reference
But, in return, the federal government will directly support commercial technology through industry consortia, regional technology alliances, and other collaborative activities. From Wordnik.com. [Presidents Remarks To Technology Reinvestment Project] Reference
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