Posted on 05/07/2003 1:45:59 PM PDT by Willie Green
Edited on 07/19/2004 2:11:18 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Plainville, Connecticut, May 7 (Bloomberg) -- In a 104-year- old brick factory and research complex, visitors to General Electric Co. pass a sepia-toned image of founder Thomas Edison to reach a display of the company's future: a security system that can spot terrorists, thieves, even card sharks.
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Follies: GE - We Bring Deflation to Life
Alan Tonelson
Monday, April 14, 2003
“The most successful China strategy is to capitalize on its market growth while exporting its deflationary power.”
– Jeffrey R. Immelt, Chairman and CEO, General Electric(Source: “Letter to Stakeholders,” by Jeffrey R. Immelt, Only GE: General Electric Annual Report 2002 (Fairfield, Conn.: General Electric Co.), 2003, p. 13)
I’ve seen footage from those casino cameras. I don’t know who they hire to run those things but they’ve got better eyes than I do. They showed a guy that swiped a $100 chip at a table and he was so smooth and quick that they had to play it back about three times before I saw that it had been taken.
Unless they hire ex-crooks that know what/who to look out for I don’t know how they do it with all the confusion.
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