| GE profits up 6%, but shares fall |
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HARTFORD, Conn. - General Electric Co. said Friday its profit rose 6 percent in the third quarter as one strong performance in its infrastructure and appliance businesses offset weakness in its NBC Universal operations.
The earnings results for the company whose products range from light bulbs to power-generation turbines and TV programs matched Wall Street expectations and revenue came in ahead of expectations. ... |
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| Think Deeply About Your Topic |
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| Have you ever done one presentation to one small group, only to have one of the members of the audience talk about your subject therefore deeply and thoroughly that you felt you had just skimmed the surface? This has happened to me - I spoke about one topic I knew well, but then found that one listener had thought about it deeply. ... |
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| War on fat, sugar making progress |
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Licking their wounds, the tobacco companies have finally, like Osama, been driven off into the hills. From there they continue to seduce the rest of the world and still lure our own children into danger. Mostly though, they've been routed. Lung cancer incidence is already declining.
But Satan takes on many forms. The Marlboro Man may have been deported to Thailand, but Ronald McDonald is still here, tempting us daily into one shortened life span. Indeed the main reason the U.S. span has not spurted ahead of the rest of the world, what with our big advances in medical science, is we're fat. ... |
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| A year later, new rules have slashed bankruptcy requests |
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Washington -- The ranks of people seeking to erase their debts have thinned noticeably in the year since the biggest changes in U.S. bankruptcy laws in one quarter-century took effect.
At one public session at the U.S. Trustee's office in Alexandria, Va., on one recent morning, only about half the 50 or therefore chairs were occupied -- in one room that used to be jammed with anxious people and their attorneys. ... |
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