In 2001 the king, known as a keen yachtman, was given a yacht by the Balearic Islands and a consortium of local business leaders as part of an effort to further associate the royal family with the islands, and to promote the islands as a tourist destination.

This consortium is an organization aimed to make Michigan one of the leaders in integrating technology into the training of young professionals.

Funded by a consortium of Houston's visionary corporate leaders, Nexus provides $ 10 tickets to eligible groups attending HGO for the first time such as, students, community, church, service and cultural organizations, and senior citizens.

As Dean of the Medical University of South Carolina from 1971 – 1974, Dr. J. F. A. McManus provided the impetus for the establishment, with area hospital leaders, of a consortium of statewide hospitals for undergraduate and postgraduate medical education.

Outraged reaction swiftly followed, and formal complaints to New Zealand Press Council came from the Asia New Zealand Foundation, the head of Journalism at Massey University and a consortium of mostly academics, journalists and community leaders led by Chinese social commentator Tze Ming Mok.

* March 29, 2005-The consortium of television stations organizing the leaders ' debate announces that the leaders of the Liberal, New Democratic, and Green parties will be invited to participate in the debate.

In addition, other secret societies are briefly discussed in Tragedy and Hope, including a consortium of the leaders of the central banks of several countries, who formed the Bank for International Settlements.

After numerous meetings with some of the political and industrial leaders, including Sir Winston Churchill and Anthony Gustav de Rothschild, Smallwood was successful in having seven large British corporations form a consortium to explore, investigate, and, where feasible, to develop natural resources in the province.

Bus service across the bridge is provided by the Dumbarton Express, run by a consortium of local transit agencies ( SamTrans, AC Transit, VTA and others ) which connects to BART at Union City and Caltrain at Palo Alto and California Avenue.

A specification for PPTP was published as RFC 2637 and was developed by a vendor consortium formed by Microsoft, Ascend Communications ( today part of Alcatel-Lucent ), 3Com, and others.

Australian businessman Alan Bond joined the consortium along with Reed International, Chargeurs, Next plc and London Merchant Securities amongst others.

Thames Television was also involved in an attempt to win the Channel 5 licence when it was first advertised in 1992 as the main shareholder in a consortium ( alongside Warner Bros. Television and others ) called " Channel Five Holdings "-as the lone bidder.

Apple as one of the OpenDoc consortium ( which included Adobe, Lotus, and others ) touted OpenDoc as the future foundation for application structure under Mac OS.

It has been identified by MP Keith Locke and others as part of ECHELON, the worldwide network of signals interception facilities run by the UKUSA consortium of intelligence agencies.

However, Peel and three others including an MP, Potter McQueen, formed a consortium to found a colony at the Swan River in Western Australia by sending settlers there with stock and necessary materials.

The Distributed Computing Environment ( DCE ) is a software system developed in the early 1990s by a consortium that included Apollo Computer ( later part of Hewlett-Packard ), IBM, Digital Equipment Corporation, and others.

The Manchester RSL was awarded to the University of Salford in 1997 and the channel began life as Manchester Student Television ( MSTV ) operated by a consortium that included the University of Salford and Guardian Media Group, amongst others.

According to K. William McKenzie, the Orillia Ontario lawyer who won the case in the Supreme Court of Canada, a consortium headed by David Fuss and supported by Dawn Branton and others later launched a constitutional challenge to defeat section 9 ( 1 )( c ) of the Radiocommunication Act on the basis that it breached the guarantee of Freedom of Expression enshrined in section 2 ( c ) of the Canadian Charter of Rights.

In 1990, Delta, Northwest Airlines, and Trans World Airlines formed Worldspan, and in 1993, another consortium ( including British Airways, KLM, and United Airlines, among others ) formed the competing company Galileo International based on Apollo.

Sinopec Corporation is a partner in Petrodar Operating Company Ltd., a consortium whose partners also include China National Petroleum Corporation ( CNPC, the 90 per cent owner of PetroChina ) and Sudapet ( the Sudanese state-owned oil company ), among others.

As MIPS Computer Systems, Inc. had co-founded the Advanced Computing Environment consortium with Silicon Graphics, Microsoft, Motorola and others, the MIPS Magnum R4000 was intended to be MIPS ' entry into the Windows NT workstation market.

The first of the two was carried about by the media consortium ( which includes the Boston Globe, NECN, and WBUR, among others ) and moderated by former New Hampshire governor Jeanne Shaheen, while the second and final debate was held by WBZ-TV and moderated by their political analyst, Jon Keller.

As previous owner, they had the first right of purchase, but third lowest bid by Messers Abdullah and others, a consortium of twelve leading industrialists, mostly from the Punjab.

While some jurisdictions only recognize spousal consortium ( usually considered as sex ) others recognize parental consortium ( love and affection ) as well allowing children to recover for the death or disability of a parent and vice versa.

The format was defined by a special consortium called 3D Industry Forum that brought together a diverse group of companies and organizations, including Intel, Boeing, HP, Adobe Systems, Bentley Systems, Right Hemisphere and others whose main focus had been the promotional development of 3D graphics for use in various industries, specifically at this time manufacturing as well as construction and industrial plant design.

On 12 March 2007, a consortium led by Prodrive chairman David Richards purchased Aston Martin for £ 475m ( US $ 848m ).

Development of the area started in 1961, and was financed by a consortium of companies led by Prince Karim Aga Khan.

AFISCO, an Indian consortium of seven companies, led by the Steel Authority of India Limited ( SAIL ), and Canada's Kilo Goldmines Ltd are expected to jointly invest $ 14. 6 billion in developing the Hajigak iron mine.

He led a consortium that invested in his old club Leicester, saving it from bankruptcy, and was appointed honorary vice-president.

BAA is owned by FGP TopCo Limited, an international consortium led by Ferrovial, which also includes Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec and GIC Special Investments.

As of 1 December 1999 the Central East African Railways, a consortium led by Railroad Development Corporation, won the right to operate the network.

Most preseason games are televised on Cox Sports Television and WVUE ( Channel 8 ), a station which has been owned by a consortium led by Saints owner Tom Benson since mid-2008, and, as the Fox affiliate for New Orleans, carries the majority of Saints games ; both stations also carry a heavy compliment of coach and player shows.

Two years after the web site was launched, the creators sold a majority share to a consortium of investors led by Doug Dohring.

On 28 February 2008, Sony made a similar announcement, of impending sale to a consortium led by American investment banking giant ( now bank holding company ) Morgan Stanley.

This led to the VESA consortium proposing and defining a Local Bus standard in 1992.

It was constructed in 1988 by a consortium of companies led by AT & T, France Telecom, and British Telecom.

After Henry's death in 1460, the Portuguese crown showed little interest in continuing and, in 1469, sold off the neglected African enterprise to a private Lisbon merchant consortium led by Fernão Gomes.

A huge air shower experiment called the Auger Project is currently operated at a site on the pampas of Argentina by an international consortium of physicists, led by James Cronin, 1980 Nobel Prize in Physics of the University of Chicago and Alan Watson of the University of Leeds.

The Center for Urban Science and Progress ( CUSP ) is an applied science research institute which will be a partnership of top institutions from around the globe, led by NYU and NYU-Poly with a consortium of world-class universities including: The University of Warwick, Carnegie Mellon University, the City University of New York, the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, and the University of Toronto.

After lengthy negotiations, on February 1, 2005, the Nigerian and Sao Tomé governments entered into an exploration and production sharing agreement over the first of six different exploration blocs with a US dominated consortium led by ChevronTexaco with 51 % of the equity, ExxonMobil with 40 % and Dangote Energy Equity Resources, a small Nigerian and Norwegian company with the remaining 9 %.

A consortium led by Chevron is producing and exporting oil from the Southern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea.

For instance, a consortium led by micro gas turbine company Bladon Jets has secured investment from the Technology Strategy Board to develop an Ultra Lightweight Range Extender ( ULRE ) for next generation electric vehicles.

The airport is owned and operated by BAA, which also owns and operates five other UK airports, and is itself owned by FGP TopCo Limited, an international consortium, which includes Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec and GIC Special Investments, that is led by the Spanish Ferrovial Group.

" German Limited Company for Pest Control ") was founded by a consortium of German chemical companies including Degussa, and initially led by chemistry Nobel laureate Fritz Haber.

During the summer of 2008, a club takeover was agreed between Cazzola and an American-based consortium ; this was, however, cancelled in the end, following disagreements between the parties, and the club was successively sold to a local group led by new chairman Francesca Menarini, who thus became the second female chairman in the whole Serie A. Arrigoni was confirmed as head coach by the new group, and the start appeared to be particularly impressive, with a surprising 2 – 1 win at San Siro against Milan thanks to a winning goal scored by Francesco Valiani.

On 23 December 2010, the consortium Bologna 2010 led by banker Giovanni Consorte and coffee businessman Massimo Zanetti acquired the club from Sergio Porcedda, after the latter failed to pay wages for the club during his short-tenured ownership and put Bologna in threaten of bankruptcy.

In spending £ 690, 000 to acquire a 69 percent majority stake in the club from a Monaco-based consortium led by Italian football agent, Antonio Caliendo, Ecclestone spent £ 150, 000 on his 15 percent, while Briatore bought 54 percent for £ 540, 000 through a British Virgin Islands registered company, Sarita Capital.

The consortium led by the Cosmen family abandoned their bid on 16 October 2009, leading to a drop in shares of 26 %.

Stereo 8 was created in 1964 by a consortium led by Bill Lear of Lear Jet Corporation, along with Ampex, Ford Motor Company, General Motors, Motorola, and RCA Victor Records ( RCA ).

Tower 1, the west tower ( right in the top-right photograph ) was built by a Japanese consortium led by the Hazama Corporation ( JA Jones Construction Co., MMC Engineering Services Sdn Bhd, Ho Hup Construction Co. Bhd and Mitsubishi Corp ) while Tower 2, the east tower ( left in the top-right photograph ) was built by a South Korean consortium led by the Samsung C & T Corporation ( Kukdong Engineering & Construction and Syarikat Jasatera Sdn Bhd ).