1.   A consortium plans to build a natural-gas pipeline from Russia to supply eastern Germany.

2.   The consortium of cosmologists plans to use the data from Sloan to produce a three-dimensional scale model of a large chunk of the universe.

3.   The consortium plans to reorganize and expand the steel plant, a unit of the debt-ridden NTS Steel Group, and replace local managers with foreigners.

4.   The consortium plans to convert an old naval base in the port city of Sovetskaya Gavan to an export dock.

5.   The European consortium also plans to reorganize into a private corporation.

6.   The IBM approach might work with the technology that the consortium is planning to adopt.

7.   This spring, a foreign consortium plans to drill the first test well.

8.   This is the last year the consortium plans to ask Washington for money, largely to complete projects for the Department of Defense that are under way.

9.   When she learned that a Turkish-German consortium was planning to build a hotel on the beach, she flew into action.

10.   A Norwegian-led consortium plans to combine the lust for travel with the nesting instinct by selling apartments aboard an enormous ship.