51.   Public hospitals like Bellevue have been among the largest providers of care for HIV and AIDS patients, including many poor residents.

52.   Regence was the largest remaining provider to the individual market.

53.   San Francisco-based Catholic Healthcare West has quietly become the largest health care provider in the state by casting itself as financial savior of struggling California nonprofits.

54.   SBC also owns a stake in Covad, the largest independent provider.

55.   SBC is the largest cellular provider among the Bells.

56.   Syncor is among the largest providers of outpatient imaging services in the U.S.

57.   The acquisitions by America Online, the largest Internet service provider, underscore the growing popularity of playing and listening to music over the Internet.

58.   The church is the largest nonpublic provider of education, health care and human services in the United States.

59.   The combined company will become, at least for now, the second largest Internet provider.

60.   The largest provider in biotech is the National Institutes of Health.