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A sub-group of Environmental Industiy Associations that represents for-profit companies in North America providing solid, hazardous and medical waste collection, recycling and disposal sendees, remedial and oil spill clean-ups, and companies providing professional and consulting sendees to the industiy. 

Not-for-proht organizations, including universities and research institutes, have a natural affinity for such partnership arrangements since they avoid the natural skepticism that comes from a profit motivation. But, even for profit, companies can create a virtual partnership by communicating clearly to the FDA—in action as well as words—a willingness to put public health and safety above short-term revenue goals. 

If this is a project sponsored by a for-profit company, the polymer chemist will need a synthetic procedure that is practical, safe, and environmentally benign, that can be scaled up for manufacturing, and that is inexpensive enough so the company can make a profit. It should come as no surprise that as the electronics industry continues to produce smaller and more sophisticated devices, the demand for new ideas and new materials remains extremely high. For one, a plastic semiconductor stable in air (Anon. CEN 2002) or a polymeric transistor (Dagani 2001) that could replace silicon would eliminate the need for complicated and relatively expensive silicon fabrication technology. 

We are getting a lot of positive feedback from our partners. [Our] members regard an ATP award as the gold medal in the research Olympics. This quote from the Ohio Aerospace Institute (OAI) is not only wonderful because of how it captures the prestige felt by ATP participants, but also because it allows me to highlight the fact that we have a number of not-for-profit companies that successfully lead joint ventures. OAI is one of them and so is the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences, which Christopher Hill mentioned in his presentation. 

Having not-for-profit companies leading joint ventures works very well. Not only do they know how to attract different partners, but they also know how to keep them together and find new partners when necessary. 

TGL is a not-for-profit company limited by guarantee. It is independent of government and the pharmaceutical industry and is funded solely through sales of its Guidelines. 

In 2000, the door opened on a revolution in our knowledge of DNA. Two research endeavors, one in a for-profit company (Celera Genomics) and one in a not-for-profit consortium (the Human Genome Project) jointly announced their first results in mapping human DNA. The map of human DNA was completed in April 2003. The location of every segment of human DNA had been identified. 

The Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB) was established on 1 April 2003 as a not-for-profit company owned by the railway industry. Our role is to provide leadership in the development of the long term safety strategy and policy for the UK railway. The company is limited by guarantee and has a members council, a board and an advisory committee. It is independent of any single railway company and of their commercial interests. 

In the UK, GAMBICA, the trade association for instrumentation, control, automation and laboratory technology, has launched a not-for-profit company to operate the business to business compliance scheme under WEEE regulations. GAMBICA has also assembled a WEEE/RoHS Task Force involving over 30 member companies. This assists members to influence or monitor the development of... 

D. Private Passengers (Business) — A for-profit company that provides interstate transportation of passengers in order to support its primary line of business. The passenger transportation service should not be available to the general public. For example, a hotel chain that provides a free shuttle service that crosses a state line driving from an airport to a hotel is classified as Private Passengers (Business). The shuttle service furthers the business, but is not a source of income. 

Gaussian, Inc., is organized as a privately held company. While it proved more flexible to organize as a for-profit company, the purpose of the company is to promote progress in computational chemistry, and its revenues are used to this end. The specific goals include ... 

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