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  3. A. Verizon Communications A Fortune 20 company, Verizon Communications is one of the world’s leading providers of communications

A. Verizon Communications A Fortune 20 company, Verizon Communications is one of the world’s leading providers of communications

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问题 A. Verizon Communications
A Fortune 20 company, Verizon Communications is one of the world’s leading providers of communications services, with approximately ＄ 68 billion in annual revenues. Verizon companies are the largest providers of wireline and wireless communications in the United States. Verizon is also the largest directory publisher in the world, as measured by directory titles and circulation.
B. Adobe
Founded in 1982, Adobe today is one of the world’s largest software companies, generating annual revenues exceeding US ＄1.2 billion. More than 3,700 employees across the world share Adobe’s commitment to helping people communicate better. Headquartered in San Jose, California, Adobe is traded on the Nasdaq National Market under the symbol ADBE. Adobe helps people and businesses communicate better through its world-leading digital imaging, design, and document technology platforms for consumers, creative professionals, and enterprises.
C. Mainichi Shimbun
"Tokyo Nichi-Nichi Shimbun," the Mainiehi Shimbun’s predecessor, was founded on Feb. 21, 1872. In 1944, it merged with the "Osaka Mainiehi Shimbun" to become the "Mainichi Shimbun" of today. It is the oldest newspaper in Japan. Over the years it has garnered a reputation among the Japanese people as a newspaper that provides unbiased reporting, poignant editorials and other information vital to a modern society. The Mainichi Shimbun has five main offices and more than 280 branch offices and news gathering stations throughout Japan. In addition, it has over 20 bureaus around the world. These resources help to make it a leader in collecting and reporting every kind of domestic and foreign news.
D. BNSF
BNSF was created on September 22, 1995, from the merger of Burlington Northern Inc. and Santa Fe Pacific Corporation. The company employs about 38, 000 people. Headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation (BNSF), through its subsidiary The Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Company, operates one of the largest railroad networks in North America, with 33,000 route miles covering 28 states and two Canadian provinces. This network covers the western two-thirds of the United States, stretching from major Pacific Northwest and Southern California ports to the Midwest, Southeast and Southwest, and from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada.
E. Prudential plc
Established in 1848, today Prudential plc is a leading international financial services company with some 16 million customers, policyholders and unit holders and some 20,000 employees worldwide. In the UK Prudential is a leading life and pensions provider with around seven million customers. M＆G was acquired by Prudential in 1999 and is the Group’s UK and European fund manager, responsible for managing over ￡111 billion of funds (as at December 2003). Launched by Prudential in 1998, Egg is an innovative financial services company, with over three million customers, with nearly six per cent of UK credit card balances. In Asia, Prudential is the leading European life insurer with 23 life and fund management operations in 12 countries serving some five million customers. In the US, Prudential owns Jackson National Life, a leading life insurance company, and has more than 1.5 million policies and contracts in force.
The company is among Fortune 500.
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