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Alliance & Leicester is one of the UK's major financial services groups, offering a broad range of financial services to both personal and commercial customers. It has been a part of the FTSE 100 index of leading shares since 1997, when it converted from its original mutual building society status. Today, it has 5.5 million customers, 254 branches, and underwrites £28bn of residential mortgage balances, and £3.1bn of unsecured personal loan balances.
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Allen & Overy is an international legal practice comprising Allen & Overy LLP and its affiliated undertakings. With approximately 4,800 staff, including some 430 partners, working in 25 major centres worldwide we are able to provide effective, co-ordinated and decisive legal advice across three continents.
Our clients include some of the world's leading businesses, financial institutions, governments and private individuals. Our aim is to understand your business objectives and to be considered a critical arm of your organisation; your success is a measure of our success.
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Armstrong World Industries, Inc., a subsidiary of Armstrong Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: ACK), is a global leader in the design and manufacture of floors, ceilings and cabinets. Based in Lancaster, Pa., Armstrong has approximately 16,000 employees worldwide.
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ARUP Laboratories is a national clinical and anatomic pathology reference laboratory and an enterprise of the University of Utah and its Department of Pathology. With more than 1,800 employees, ARUP offers in excess of 2,000 tests and test combinations, ranging from routine screening tests to highly esoteric molecular and genetic assays, for patients throughout the country. Rather than competing with its clients for physician office business, ARUP chooses instead to support clients' existing test menus by offering highly complex and unique tests, with accompanying consultative support, to enhance their abilities to provide local and regional laboratory services. ARUP's clients include more than half of the nation's university teaching hospitals and children's hospitals, as well as multi-hospital groups, major commercial laboratories, group purchasing organizations, military and government facilities, and major clinics. In addition, ARUP is a worldwide leader in innovative laboratory research and development, led by the efforts of the ARUP Institute for Clinical and Experimental Pathology™.
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Home of the successful Power Smart energy conservation program, BC Hydro provides high-value, reliable power to fuel economic growth in British Columbia. As one of the largest electric utilities in Canada, BC Hydro serves more than 1.5 million customers in an area containing over 94 per cent of British Columbia's population. BC Hydro endeavors to provide energy solutions to its customers in an environmentally and socially responsible way by balancing British Columbians' energy needs with the concerns of the environment. Through the efficient and reliable supply of electricity, BC Hydro supports the development of British Columbia and has constructed a world-class integrated hydroelectric system of close to 11,500 megawatts of generating capacity - over 87% of which is hydroelectric. Due to this efficient, reliable system, British Columbians enjoy some of the lowest electricity rates in the world.
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Bowling Green State University, located in northwest Ohio, was founded in 1910. It is dedicated to providing a wide array of quality academic programs in a learning environment that promotes academic and personal excellence as well as an appreciation of intellectual, ethical and aesthetic values. A state-assisted, residential institution, BGSU has an enrollment of approximately 20,000 students on two campuses and 840 full-time faculty members. More than 200 undergraduate majors and programs are offered, along with master’s degree programs in 65 fields and doctoral programs in 16 areas.
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The City of Boise is the capital and largest city in the State of Idaho and is the hub of commerce, banking and government for the state. As a part of a thriving metropolitan area of 450,000 people, Boise has received numerous accolades as a top US city for business and careers. Located along the Boise River and nestled against foothills of the Rocky Mountains, Boise offers exceptional recreational opportunities including nearby Bogus Basin Ski Resort and the 25-mile Boise River greenbelt.
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The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It provides world class information services to the academic, business, research and scientific communities and offers unparalleled access to the world's largest and most comprehensive research collection. The British Library's collections include 150 million items from every era of written human history beginning with Chinese oracle bones dating from 300 BC, right up to today's newspapers.
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Cambridge University Press is the printing and publishing house of the University of Cambridge. It is an integral part of the University and has similar charitable objectives in advancing knowledge, education, learning, and research. For centuries the Press has extended the research and teaching activities of the University by making available worldwide through its printing and publishing a remarkable range of academic and educational books, journals, examination papers and Bibles. For millions of people around the globe, the publications of the Press represent their only real link with the University of Cambridge.
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Captaris is a leading provider of unified communications and mobile business solutions that allow companies to improve business communications with customers, partners and employees. The company provides access to and control of critical business information from almost any communications device and enhances communications workflow by improving the way in which company stakeholders exchange information.
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The Children's Society is a leading national charity, driven by the belief that every child deserves a good childhood. Our network of projects helps over 50,000 children and their families each year. Through our pioneering research and influential campaigning, we defend, safeguard and protect the childhood of all children.
We support children in trouble with the law, guiding them away from a cycle of crime and custody. We work with children who are forced to run away from home or care, protecting them from abuse, crime and prostitution on the street. We ensure that disabled children have a voice and are given the choices that other children enjoy. And we help refugee children rebuild their lives in new communities, surrounded and supported by friends. We are also expanding our work with young careers, traveller children and children whose parents misuse alcohol or drugs.
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Churchill Downs, the world's most legendary racetrack, has conducted Thoroughbred racing and presented America's greatest race, the Kentucky Derby, continuously since 1875. Located in Louisville, Kentucky, the flagship racetrack of Churchill Downs Incorporated also operates Trackside Louisville, an off-track betting and training facility. Churchill Downs has served as host to the Breeders' Cup World Thoroughbred Championships a record five times.
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Dionex is a leading developer and manufacturer of laboratory and process analytical systems and related products used to isolate, identify and quantify the components of complex chemical mixtures. These products are used to meet analytical needs ranging from basic research to in-process quality control. Dionex customers include many of the largest industrial companies worldwide, as well as government agencies, research institutions and universities.
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With more than 2,900 lawyers located in 20 countries and 53 offices throughout Asia, Europe and the U.S., DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary is positioned to help companies with all their legal needs anywhere in the world.
DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary provides an extensive range of legal services through seven global practice groups as follows: Commercial, Corporate and Finance, Real Estate, Legislative and Regulatory, Litigation, Human Resources and Technology, Media and Communications.
Their services provide support with the full range of legal issues and challenges that businesses face as they develop strategies and deliver their plans.
They provide advice on people, property, their commercial relationships, their financing arrangements, their acquisitions and disposals, and their systems and buildings, to mention just a few.
DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary's lawyers are locally trained and fully conversant with the cultural and business practices of all their jurisdictions. They have 53 offices in the major countries across Asia, Europe and the United States.
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Edmund Optics Inc. (EO) has been a leading supplier of optics and optical components to industry since 1942, designing and manufacturing a wide array of multi-element lenses, lens coatings, imaging systems, and opto-mechanical equipment. Although we are well known as a catalog based distributor of industrial optics and related products, we offer much more — including a number of engineering and manufacturing services — to our customers. A worldwide presence in industrial optics, we have offices in the United States, Japan, China, Germany, the United Kingdom, Singapore, France and Korea, as well as sales representation in Israel and Switzerland.
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In 2006, Guide Dogs is celebrating 75 years since the first working guide dog partnerships appeared on the country's streets. Three-quarters of a century later, the charity's dedicated team of staff, volunteers and supporters continue to provide freedom, mobility and independence for blind and partially sighted people through 4,700 guide dogs.
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Founded in 1907, HEC Montréal is Canada's first management school. It is the first North American school to hold the three accreditations AACSB International, EQUIS and AMBA, and the first non-European school to receive EQUIS accreditation. HEC Montréal's MBA program is accredited by the Association of MBAs (UK), offered in English and French, with over 55 percent international students. It was rated as one of the 10 best MBA programs outside the United States, according to the MBA 2004 classification by BusinessWeek. Close to 12,000 students, of whom 2,800 are non-Canadian visa students and permanent residents, make up the total enrollment. With a multidisciplinary faculty of nearly 240 career professors, HEC Montréal offers 33 management study programs, from BBA to PhD. It features a multilingual approach, with some courses offered in English and Spanish in addition to the French curriculum, as well as French workshops and courses in business English and business Spanish.
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Huntington Bancshares Incorporated is a $32 billion regional bank holding company headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. Through its affiliated companies, Huntington has more than 139 years of serving the financial needs of its customers. Huntington provides innovative retail and commercial financial products and services through more than 300 regional banking offices in Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and West Virginia. Huntington also offers retail and commercial financial services online at huntington.com; through its technologically advanced, 24-hour telephone bank; and through its network of approximately 700 ATMs.
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ING Group is a global financial institution of Dutch origin with 115,000 employees. ING offers banking, insurance and asset management to 60 million clients in 60 countries. The clients are individuals, families, small businesses, large corporations, institutions and governments. ING comprises a broad spectrum of prominent businesses that increasingly serve their clients under the ING brand.
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The Jefferson Health System was created to form a comprehensive integrated health care delivery system to provide, through the Institutions, quality health care in a cost-effective manner in settings appropriate to patient and payor needs under a variety of health care financing arrangements.
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Established in 1978, M Financial Group is a unique nationwide organization of independent insurance, investment and executive benefit firms serving affluent individuals, corporate executives, entrepreneurs, and Fortune 1000 companies. Products include life insurance, investments, qualified and nonqualified benefit plans and disability income protection.
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At Main Line Health, the mission is to provide the most modern and comprehensive range of healthcare services to meet our neighbors' needs and to improve the quality of life in the communities they serve. From prenatal health programs to innovative services for seniors, from routine wellness checks to nationally recognized rehabilitation programs, the Main Line Health Hospitals -- Bryn Mawr, Lankenau, Paoli and Bryn Mawr Rehab Hospital -- offer a full spectrum of medical and related healthcare resources to meet your needs throughout your lifetime.
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The MathWorks is the leading developer and supplier of software for technical computing and Model-Based Design. Employing more than 1,300 people, The MathWorks was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Natick, Massachusetts, with offices and representatives throughout the world. The company has been profitable every year since its inception and is privately held.
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McKesson Corporation is the leading provider of supply, information and care management products and services that reduce costs and improve quality across healthcare. McKesson solutions empower healthcare professionals with the tools they need to deliver care more effectively and efficiently. With revenues of $42 billion for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2001, McKesson ranks No. 35 in the 2001 Fortune 500.
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The Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) is the transportation planning, coordinating and financing agency for the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area. Created in 1970, MTC functions as both the regional transportation planning agency – a state designation – and for federal purposes, as the region's metropolitan planning organization (MPO). As such, it is responsible for the Regional Transportation Plan, a comprehensive blueprint for the development of mass transit, highway, airport, seaport, railroad, bicycle and pedestrian facilities.
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Midway Games Inc., headquartered in Chicago, IL, is a leading developer and publisher of interactive entertainment software. Midway videogames are available for play on major videogame platforms including the PlayStation2 computer entertainment system, Xbox video game system from Microsoft, and Nintendo GameCube and Game Boy Advance.
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Misys plc, the global software products and solutions company, serves customers in the international banking and securities, US healthcare, and UK general insurance industries. Through a wholly owned subsidiary, Sesame, it also provides business process outsourcing services to independent financial advisers (IFAs) in the UK. Misys partners with its customers to deliver outstanding IT solutions to essential industries and employs more than 6,100 people internationally.
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The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) is the national association representing the real estate finance industry, an industry that employs more than 500,000 people in virtually every community in the country. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., the association works to ensure the continued strength of the nation's residential and commercial real estate markets; to expand homeownership and extend access to affordable housing to all Americans. MBA promotes fair and ethical lending practices and fosters professional excellence among real estate finance employees through a wide range of educational programs and a variety of publications. Its membership of over 2,900 companies includes all elements of real estate finance: mortgage companies, mortgage brokers, commercial banks, thrifts, Wall Street conduits, life insurance companies and others in the mortgage lending field.
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National Express Ltd is part of a leading international transport provider, National Express Group (NEG), with over 45,000 employees. In addition to train and bus companies within the UK including Gatwick Express, Midland Mainline and Travel West Midlands, NEG's overseas operations include student transportation and public transit in the USA & Canada and the management of Stewart International Airport near New York. In total National Express Group now carry more than 1 billion passengers a year.
National Express is the largest scheduled coach service provider in Europe. In the UK the distinctive white National Express coaches operate to 1000 destinations and carry over 16 million customers a year. Eurolines coaches additionally operate to over 500 destinations within Europe and Ireland.
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Established around 1756, the Natural History Museum is the UK's national museum of nature, and a centre of scientific excellence in taxonomy and biodiversity. For hundreds of years it has maintained and developed a range of collections and used them to promote discovery, responsible use, understanding and enjoyment of the natural world. The museum launched its first Web site in July 1994 and was the first major UK museum to go online. Popular with natural history experts and enthusiasts worldwide, the Web site welcomed over 700,000 unique visitors in March 2004.
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Network World, The Leader in Network Knowledge, empowers Network Leaders and enables e-business through education, information and community. Network World is the leading provider of news, analysis, reviews and education on information technology. Network World publishes the leading newsweekly, Network World, hosts the most active online community, Network World Fusion, and produces educational seminars and events worldwide.
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The Nottingham Trent is a large, diverse and vibrant modern university. Its mission is to deliver education and research that shapes lives and society and in doing so the university offers a strong course portfolio designed to meet the needs of both students and industry.
The quality of learning at the Nottingham Trent is demonstrated by the fact that it has achieved "excellent" grades in ten out of the last eleven subject reviews undertaken by the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education. It has also become one of the UK's top universities for graduate employment - with around 97 per cent of full-time students graduating from the university in 2002 gaining jobs or going on to further study within six months of completing their courses.
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Established in 1884, the NSPCC is the UK’s leading charity specialising in child protection and the prevention of cruelty to children. Its wide range of work includes 180 community-based projects throughout the UK and Northern Ireland, a 24 hour child protection helpline, public education campaigns, parliamentary campaigns, child protection training and advice, research, information resources and fundraising through individual and corporate sponsors.
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Founded in 1967, OCLC Online Computer Library Center is a nonprofit, membership, computer library service and research organization dedicated to the public purposes of furthering access to the world's information and reducing information costs. More than 45,000 libraries in 84 countries and territories around the world use OCLC services to locate, acquire, catalog, lend and preserve library materials.
Researchers, students, faculty, scholars, professional librarians and other information seekers use OCLC services to obtain bibliographic, abstract and full-text information when and where they need it.
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P&O Ferries is the ferry operating arm of P&O managing routes for passengers, cars and freight mainly across the English Channel but also routes to Holland and Spain. P&O Ferries is a wholly owned subsidiary of the P&O Group.
The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company has a celebrated history dating back to the 1830s. It was incorporated by a Royal Charter in 1840, and its name therefore includes neither "PLC" nor "Limited". The initials "P&O" are among the most familiar anywhere, and its house flag, older even than the Company itself, is one of the best known. The history of its first century is encapsulated in the heraldry of its Coat of Arms, granted in 1937, while throughout well over 160 years it has been a premier British shipping company, and in its time the largest and most varied in the world.
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PBGC is a federal corporation that was created by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to encourage the continuation and maintenance of voluntary private pension plans, provide timely and uninterrupted payment of pension benefits, and keep pension insurance premiums at a minimum. Defined benefit pension plans promise to pay a specified monthly benefit at retirement, commonly based on salary and years on the job.
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As the nation's second oldest mutual life insurer, Penn Mutual is a leading provider of life insurance and annuity products. The company currently has more than 300,000 individual life and annuity policyholders and more than $39 billion of life insurance in force.
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As the national postal operator in Denmark, Post Danmark provides universal postal services to all customers nationally by collecting and distributing letters and parcels as well as distributing unaddressed items, local weeklies, newspapers, magazines and periodicals. In addition, it provides facility services and eCommunication solutions to major enterprises.
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Symbian is a software licensing company that develops and supplies the advanced, open, standard operating system - Symbian OS - for data-enabled mobile phones.
Symbian was established as a private independent company in June 1998.
Headquartered in the UK, it now has more than 1000 staff with offices in Japan, Sweden, UK, USA and India.
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The original Tate Gallery, at Millbank in London, opened in 1897. Its official name was in fact the National Gallery of British Art, but it at once became popularly known as the Tate Gallery, after its founder Sir Henry Tate. It was built on the site of Millbank Penitentiary, demolished in 1892, and was designed to house the collection of nineteenth-century British painting and sculpture given to the nation by Sir Henry Tate, together with some British paintings transferred from the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square. At that time its responsibilities were specifically for modern British art, defined then as artists born after 1790. However in 1917 the gallery was also made responsible for the national collection of international modern art and for British art going back to about 1500. Today, what was the Tate Gallery has become Tate, a family of four galleries: Tate Britain and Tate Modern in London, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives.
Tate now ranks with the National Gallery, British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum as one of the great museums of Britain. It continues to develop its dual role as the national collection of British art and as the national collection of international modern and contemporary art.
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TechSoup.org is the technology web site for nonprofits created by CompuMentor. Each month, the site receives almost 300,000 visits from people who are looking for nonprofit tech know-how to achieve their missions. TechSoup.org features more than 400 how-to articles on 17 technology topics, 15 community discussion forums, a technology news section, and the TechFinder service provider directory. TechSoup.org's technology product philanthropy service, TechSoup Stock, has distributed more than 1.3 million technology product donations from companies such as Cisco, Intuit and Microsoft to over 45,000 nonprofit organizations and freed up over $343 million for other uses.
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The University of Rhode Island is the state's largest university with an enrollment of about 12,000 undergraduate and 3,000 graduate students on four campuses. With nationally and internationally known faculty engaged in a broad range of teaching, research and outreach activities, URI is renowned in many areas, including biotechnology, oceanography, environmental sciences, engineering, and public health promotion. Outreach is at the core of the University's role as a land grant, sea grant and urban grant university.
At the heart of the University are disciplines that promote students' development as critical, independent thinkers and provide the foundation for more than 100 undergraduate and 80 graduate degree programs. Numerous interdisciplinary research programs in place encourage close student-faculty interaction and hands-on learning opportunities with the University's more than 700 teaching and research faculty.
The University's rural, 1,200-acre main campus is located in Kingston, about 30 miles south of Providence and about six miles from the coast. Other campuses are the 165 acre Narragansett Bay Campus in Narragansett, R.I., the Feinstein Providence Campus in the city of Providence, and the 2,300 acre W. Alton Jones Campus in West Greenwich, R.I.
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The V&A in South Kensington, London is part of a family of museums consisting of The Museum of Childhood in Bethnal Green and The Theatre Museum in Covent Garden.
V&A South Kensington is the world's greatest museum of art and design, with collections unrivalled in their scope and diversity. Discover 3000 years' worth of amazing artefacts from many of the world's richest cultures including ceramics, furniture, fashion, glass, jewellery, metalwork, photographs, sculpture, textiles and paintings.
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VEGAS.com is the largest city destination travel Web site in the world with extensive, constantly updated information and a full range of travel products including hotel rooms, air-hotel packages, show tickets, tours and golf. A state of the art contact center provides customer support, expert information and sales 24 days a week, 365 days a year to complement the information on www.VEGAS.com and www.espanol.Vegas.com. VEGAS.com is a member of the Greenspun Family of Companies, a privately owned company operating in Southern Nevada for more than 60 years.
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Founded in 1872 as a land-grant college, Virginia Tech is now a comprehensive, innovative research university with the largest full-time student population in Virginia. Through a combination of its three missions of learning, discovery, and engagement, Virginia Tech continually strives to accomplish the charge of its motto: Ut Prosim (That I May Serve).
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