The NEC® arose as a consensus of more than 1200 individuals primarily to .

a. standardize price
b. schedules combat a growing
c. epidemic of electrical fires
d. standardize equipment use as a marketing tool

NEC arose to:

d.standardize equipment use as a marketing tool

Explanation:

NEC Corporation is a multinational IT and Electronics firm that is based out of Japan.

It was started in the 60s as Nippon Electric company ltd. but it re branded itself to name NEC in 1983.

It is responsible for the standardization of equipment as their USP and their prime marketing tool and made it a standard industry practice to do so as of now.

Their impact on the whole industry has been immense.

answer; (c) penalty

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two years ago, when picking flowers in the mountains back of yosemite valley; i found a book. it was blotted and storm-beaten, all of its outer pages were mealy and crumbly. the paper seemed to dissolve like the snow beneath which it had been buried, however, many of the inner pages were well preserved. and although all were more or less stained and torn; whole chapters were easily readable. this is the condition of the great open book of yosemite glaciers today, its granite pages have been torn and blurred by the same storms that wasted the castaway book.