In 1997, Telkom, the South African telecommunications parastatal, was partly privatised and entered into a strategic equity partnership with a consortium of two companies, including SBC, a U. S. telecommunications company.

The Claremont Colleges — a consortium of seven schools of higher education — include Pomona College ( founded in 1887 ), Claremont Graduate University ( 1925 ), Scripps College ( 1926 ), Claremont McKenna College ( 1946 ), Harvey Mudd College ( 1955 ), Pitzer College ( 1963 ), and the Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences ( 1997 ).

In December 1997, Christie's put itself on the auction block, but after two months of negotiations with a consortium led investment firm SBC Warburg Dillon Read, it did not attract a bid high enough to accept.

By 1997, the consortium reached its present membership of 5 undergraduate and 2 graduate institutions.

In August 1997, to fund an £ 80 million extension of the airport, the council issued a 30-year concession contract to a public private partnership consortium, London Luton Airport Operations Limited, a partnership of Airport Group International ( AGI ) and Barclays Private Equity.

In 1997 THSRC declared the Eurotrain consortium its preferred bidder to supply the core systems, which included trains, track, electrification, signalling, and communications.

DVB-T is an abbreviation for Digital Video Broadcasting — Terrestrial ; it is the DVB European-based consortium standard for the broadcast transmission of digital terrestrial television that was first published in 1997 and first broadcast in the UK in 1998.

The winner, however, announced in 1997 was a consortium of Lab Architecture Studio directed by Donald Bates and Peter Davidson from London and local architects Bates Smart.

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.

On March 24, 1997, Mujuru decided to issue Zimbabwe's second cellular telephone licence to the previously unknown Zairois consortium Telecel, cutting out Masiyiwa.

In 1997, a consortium of radiologists and information technology experts formed IHE, or " Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise.

Solomon is the founder and former executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, an organization founded in 1997 " as a national consortium of independent public-policy researchers, analysts and activists.

Babcock International, who had bought out Thorn's share of the original Babcock Thorn consortium, was the only company to submit a bid and after protracted negotiations purchased the yard in January 1997.

Construction started on September 16, 1997 after the MRTC signed an amended turnkey agreement with a consortium of companies, which included Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Sumitomo Corporation, and a local company, EEI Corporation, which was subcontracted for civil works.

In 1997, KBYU-TV was allotted UHF channel 39 for its digital facilities, but in 1999, it changed their allotment to UHF channel 44 as part of a digital channel realignment coordinated by DTV Utah, a consortium of eight Salt Lake City market TV Stations, of which KBYU is a member.

In 1997 the test operations and facilities maintenance activities were subcontracted to the COMET consortium and in the year 2000 () the test management, maintenance, operations and marketing of the test centre has been taken over by European Test Services B. V. ( a subsidiary of IABG mbH and Intespace SA ); The facilities are still belonging to ESA which is responsible for the facility development, test methodologies, test related engineering and subcontractor control.

A 1997 press release from then Transport Minister Robin Cooper announced that a consortium of Reservoir Bus Company and Dyson's Bus Services were the preferred bidders for the remainder of the Public Transport Corporation's bus routes ( particularly in the inner city ).

The following twelve members have been promoted to the status of " Legend " since 1996: Ian Stewart ( 1997 ), Gordon Coventry ( 1998 ), Peter Hudson ( 1999 ), Kevin Bartlett ( 2000 ), Barrie Robran ( 2001 ), Bill Hutchison ( 2003 ), Jock McHale ( 2005 ), Darrel Baldock ( 2006 ), Norm Smith ( 2007 ), Alex Jesaulenko ( 2008 ), Kevin Murray ( 2010 ) and Barry Cable ( 2012 ).

The number categories are all based on a fifteen-digit numbering space ( excluding prefixes ; before 1997, only twelve digits were allowed ).

Still named Menteşe until the early decades of the 20th century, the kazas corresponding to ancient Caria are recorded by sources such as G. Sotiriadis ( 1918 ) and S. Anagiostopoulou ( 1997 ) as having a Greek population averaging at around ten per cent of the total, ranging somewhere between twelve to eighteen thousand, many of them reportedly recent immigrants from the islands.

The number of DCOMs per year began to increase – from two in 1997 to three in 1998 to a high of twelve in 2000.

According to the study, from 1990 – 1997, the Innu community of Davis Inlet had a suicide rate more than twelve times the Canadian average, and well over three times the rate often observed in isolated northern villages.

Its twelve storeys were completed in 1997 after 4 years of work and house offices for the bank and for divisions of several other companies, including insurance and oil companies.

As of 1997, twelve books have been published in the bilingual series from Bordighera Press.

The system was created in 1634, and its makeup was changed drastically in 1997, when the number of the provinces was reduced from twelve to six.

Smyth died at 70 in prison of a heart attack in 1997 after collapsing in the exercise yard, one month into a twelve year prison sentence.

In his 1997 publication Led Zeppelin Live: An Illustrated Exploration of Underground Tapes, Luis Rey dissects the pattern of the song ( as it was in 1975 ) into twelve sections, in order to demonstrate its gradual state of evolution when played live:

McKay is the author of twelve books of poetry, including Long Sault ( 1975 ), Lependu ( 1978 ), and Apparatus ( 1997 ).

He began 1997 by defeating Famosito Gomez by decision in twelve, once again retaining his belt.

" But in Cappuccino Years, set in 1997, Glenn is twelve years old, when consistency would require him to be only seven.

The Carnell Government was severely criticised following the death of twelve year old Katie Bender, when the de-commissioned Royal Canberra Hospital was imploded on 13 July 1997 to make way for the National Museum of Australia.

However, she recorded another very successful album in 1996 — this sold over a million copies in just twelve hours — before respiratory problems took her life in Neuilly-sur-Seine ( a suburb of Paris ), on November 24, 1997.

The World Club Challenge, which had been contested occasionally since 1975, was expanded in 1997 to include all ten Australian Super League clubs competing against all twelve European clubs.

He left parliament after the landslide 1997 general election, when he lost his seat by a margin of just twelve votes to Liberal Democrat Adrian Sanders.

( Although he found time to write the first eleven ( of twelve ) issues of Acclaim's Doctor Tomorrow between 1997 and 1998, also inking a couple of issues, notably # 6 which was drawn by Dick Giordano, who also resided in Florida and was something of a mentor to Layton.

AU Football has won eleven conference championships ( 7 SEC ), has had twelve undefeated seasons, and since the division of the conference in 1992, four western division championships ( 1997, 2000, 2004, 2010 ) and four trips to the SEC Championship game ( 1997, 2000, 2004, and 2010 ).

After breaking into the World Top 100 in 1997, and reaching a career-high singles ranking of World No. 2 on 13 May 2002, Haas's career has been interrupted by injuries: whilst a professional tennis player, he has twice dropped out of the world rankings due to being inactive for twelve months.

By 1997, however, twelve years after the song's release, the name was the 30th most popular girls ' name in the country.

On July 18, 1997, the long-awaited bout finally took place, with Tapia winning a close twelve round unanimous decision, to inflict Romero his second career defeat.

In New Zealand, it debuted on 21 December 1997 at number twenty, peaked at number nine for two weeks, and stayed on the chart for twelve weeks.

SFU has been rated as Canada's best comprehensive university ( in 1993, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 ) in the annual rankings of Canadian universities in Maclean's magazine since 1991.

Following an investigation into the future of universities, the July 1997 report of the National Committee of Inquiry into Higher Education, chaired by the then Sir Ronald Dearing recommended the ending of universal free higher education, and that students should pay £ 1, 000 towards the cost of their tuition fees, which would be recovered in the form of a graduate tax.

In 1997, the College participated in the Comprehensive Articulation Agreement ( CAA ) that allows college transfer students to move easily to the 16 UNC schools, as well as many independent college and universities.

As of 1997, there were 46 universities of pharmacy in Japan, which graduated about 8000 students annually.

Forbes magazine identified Thomas Edison State College in 1997 as one of the top 20 colleges and universities in the nation in the use of technology to create learning opportunities for adults and, as an early adopter of online education and administration, the college's computer network was cited in 1994 as “ one of the brighter stars of higher learning ” by The New York Times.

From 1997 to 2001, Lanier was the Chief Scientist of Advanced Network and Services, which contained the Engineering Office of Internet2, and served as the Lead Scientist of the National Tele-immersion Initiative, a coalition of research universities studying advanced applications for Internet2.

Since the 1997 – 1998 season, UGA has seven top ten rankings in the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics ( NACDA ) Directors ' Cup, a numerical ranking based on the success of universities in all varsity sports.

* Aalborg University is a member of the European Consortium of Innovative Universities ( ECIU ), which was founded in 1997 by 10 European universities.

In 1997, 840 teams from 560 universities participated.

As Project Director at the American Committee on Africa ( ACOA ) and its sister organization The Africa Fund from 1979 to 1997 he played a key role in the mobilization of U. S. sanctions against apartheid, helping to build the divestment movement which led to 28 states, 24 counties and more than 90 cities and 155 colleges and universities divesting from U. S. banks and companies which did business with apartheid South Africa.

He took teaching jobs at a series of universities: State University of New York at Stony Brook ( 1970 ), Tufts University ( 1972 – 1986 ), and Hiroshima Shudo University ( 1986 – 1997 ).

On March 23, 1993, the two universities announced they had signed a five-year contract with the Gator Bowl, running from 1997 to 2002.

Above all the CNAA saw itself as preserving a comparability with degree level awards in universities, a feature which can be seen as having both positive and negative aspects: positive in that it preserved a formal ‘ parity of esteem ’ between the awards of the two parts of the binary system ( e. g. retaining the common currency of the undergraduate degree for entry to postgraduate study ); but negative, in the eyes of some ( e. g. Pratt, 1997 ), in that it encouraged an ‘ academicism ’ in the new sector and slowed an acceptance of the transformations required finally to break the boundaries of the old ‘ elite ’ system.

Currently Tunisia since 1981, and Turkey since 1997, are the only Muslim countries which have banned the hijab in public schools and universities or government buildings, whilst Syria banned face veils in universities from July 2010.

Being awarded the national key comprehensive university by the Ministry of Education of China in 1978, it was listed as one of 100 universities of the " 211 Project " universities for key construction and development in 1997.

The National University of Ireland was a federation of three constituent colleges and other recognised colleges until 1997 when the colleges, along with Maynooth, a recognised college, became constituent universities.

The centre has been partnering with universities since 1997 and as of 2011, serves over 2, 400 students.

Numerous tours, interviews and television appearances have followed, and Baylis has been awarded many honours including the OBE in 1997, and eleven honorary degrees from UK universities ( 1998 to 2005 ) including the degree of Doctor of the University from the Open University in 2001.

In his 1997 interview with Charles Platt, Podkletnov insisted that his gravity-shielding work was reproduced by researchers at universities in Toronto and Sheffield, but none have come forward to acknowledge this.

In 1997, Northwestern was listed by U. S. News & World Report in the top ten universities for undergraduates for the first time.

He was decorated with the Austrian ' Ehrenkreuz für Kunst und Wissenschaft der Republik Österreich ' ( 1994 ) and got honorary doctorates of the universities of Linz / Austria ( 1995 ), Athens / Greece ( 1997 ), Kassel / Germany ( 2000 ), Graz / Austria ( 2006 ), and Klagenfurt / Austria ( 2007 ).

He has read papers at 31 universities outside the U. S. including 14 in China, 7 in Russia, Vilnius University, ( Vilnius, Lithuania ) ( 1993 ), Latvian Academy of Science, ( Riga, Latvia ) ( 1993 ), University of Minsk, ( Minsk, Belarus ) ( 1993 ), University of Edinburgh, ( Edinburgh, Scotland ) ( 1993 ), Tokyo Christian University, ( Tokyo, Japan ) ( 1997 ), University of Hong Kong ( Hong Kong ) ( 1997 ), Oxford University ( Oxford, England )( 1998 ), and the University of London, ( London, England ), ( 1998 ).