1.   A consortium of doctors announced in June that its members not only had isolated the A-T gene, but gained new insight on hereditary cancer.

2.   The consortium being announced Monday plans to use telephone wiring to create fast in-home networks.

3.   A U.S.-led international consortium announced plans Thursday to open a liaison office at the North Korean nuclear reactor site at Kumho.

4.   A multinational consortium will start drilling its first exploration well in the Caspian Sea off Kazakstan in August, the consortium announced Friday.

5.   A Western consortium announced Wednesday it has won the contract to arrange international financing for a Chinese power generating project.

6.   Europoean aircraft consortium Airbus Industrie announced Wednesday it was setting up a new regional representative office in Singapore to strengthen its commitment to Asia.

7.   The consortium then instantly announced in Seoul that it would open talks with a state-owned South Korean firm to build the two reactors.