History of Verizon Verizon Communications‚ Inc. was formed on June 30‚ 2000 with the merger of Bell Atlantic Corporation and GTE Corporation‚ in New York City and incorporated in Delaware. On July 3‚ 2000 Verizon began trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the VZ symbol. On March 10‚ 2010 they began trading on the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations (NASDAQ). The mergers that formed Verizon had roots going back to the beginning of the telephone business
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William Dean ‘ Ecumenical Service for the Victim’s of the Canyoning Tragedy 1999 | Authors Context | * Sir William Dean (then Governor General) and his wife flew to Switzerland to represent Australia just days after 21 people ‚ 14 Australians‚ died in a canyoning tragedy. | Audience | Family‚ friends and Swiss representatives made up the immediate audience. Due to media attention the wider world was also addressed on a smaller scale. | Purpose | To make a very public speech on the occasion
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and Bret Witter which got translated in nineteen languages and later got filmed by Georg Clooney‚ who also played one of the main characters. Robert M. Edsel already (co-) published several other works about the preservation‚ protection and restitution of the world’s greatest artistic and cultural treasures. The book deals with the work of the Monuments‚ Fine Arts‚ and Archives Section (MFAA) under the Civil Affairs and Military Government Sections of the Allied armies. The Department was established
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Comcast and AT&T: A Cable-Industry Merger The Cable Industry of the 1990s‚ and Comcast’s/AT&T’s Places Therein From 1990 to 2001‚ the cable industry was compelled to almost completely restructure; buffeted by forces both internal and external‚ cable operators were forced to make drastic changes in the name of survival. Influences at play in the early 1990s were only augmented when Congress passed the Telecommunications Act of 1996‚ allowing “competitive distribution technologies…to
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1/19 Review by Don Milligan Why Marx Was Right Terry Eagleton New Haven & London: Yale University Press‚ 2011 ISBN 978-0-300-18153-1 Pbk “Was ever a thinker so travestied?” T erry Eagleton ends Why Marx Was Right with this rhetorical question: “Was ever a thinker so travestied?” This is a fitting end to a book which is a lament for the wicked ways of a world that has done so much damage to the thought and legacy of Karl Marx‚ piling misconception upon misconception‚ so that
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Rules of Merger & Demerger _________________________________________ 1. These rules are called Rules of Merger & Demerger amongst the Firms registered with The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. 2. Concept of Merger & Demerger: i) The Partnership Act has not prescribed merger & demerger of partnerships. In the corporate world‚ merger and demerger have become universal practices for securing survival‚ growth‚ expansion and globalization of enterprise and achieving multitude
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buildings are the remains of some prototype air-raid warning structures built in 1920; by accompanying the images with ambient sound recorded in 1999‚ she doubles the act of preservation of those buildings‚ already saved from destruction in 1988. She was shortlisted for the 1998 Turner Prize. Tacita Dean’s newest series of blackboard drawings‚ ‘Fatigues’ (2012)‚ presents a discourse on the fragility of the human gesture. This vulnerability stands in the face of many things: it manifests in her delicate
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Why Marx Was Right Why Marx Was Right TERRY EAGLETON New Haven & London Published with assistance from the Louis Stern Memorial Fund. Copyright ∫ 2011 by Yale University. All rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced‚ in whole or in part‚ including illustrations‚ in any form (beyond that copying permitted by Sections 107 and 108 of the U.S. Copyright Law and except by reviewers for the public press)‚ without written permission from the publishers. Yale University Press books may
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Firms are aggressively engaging in merger and acquisitions as financial strategies in today’s business world. Merger and acquisitions are a process discussed between two firms each seeking to benefit from the decision of marrying the two companies’. Factors to be considered when combining the firms are their financial benefits and operation efficiency from the transaction. The objective is to reduce the rate of risk to increase value on the firm‚ thus bringing a higher return to its shareholders
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In life today‚ people tend to over exaggerate the phrases “happy as a clam” and “living the dream.” Dean Young‚ the author of “Clam Ode”‚ expresses how he relates to every other American struggling to find happiness in their life but in the end wishing to be comparable to a clam who is content with where he is in life. As humans we have the natural reaction to want more than we already have. We often focus on what is ahead of us or what we could have‚ rather than appreciating and accepting the pleasantness
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