CareCredit, an arm of General Electric Money Company, states clearly that the card is intended for patients seeking elective treatments, such as dental work or vision correction surgery, not for emergency care.
Clearly, General Electric sees more money in powering the demand for infrastructure improvements around the world than it does in consumer spending.
Pierre Omidyar, who started eBay, is more focused on philanthropy, while PayPal founder Elon Musk has put his money into electric cars (Tesla) and space travel (SpaceX).
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For example, operating companies such as American Airlines, Bechtel, Caterpillar, General Dynamics and General Electric all established affiliated money management firms to earn fees from managing the retirement assets of their employees.
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Conrad cites the recent news of Bain Capital and Goldman Sachs buying power plants as a sign that the smart money believes the electric generation business is still undervalued.
But most of the projects that are receiving grants involve the installation of what are known as smart meters -- devices that will have a direct benefit for consumers who want to save money on their electric bills.
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This year, Peterson wonders whether they'll have enough money to pay the electric bill and buy groceries.
Once in a business, Mitsubishi companies stay put (unless they lose money as fast as Mitsubishi Electric has managed to do in semiconductors).
The survey, which CEA conducted in April with more than 1, 000 respondents, also suggested that people participating in energy-management programs sponosored by electric utilities are saving negligible amounts of money on their monthly bills compared to non-participating consumers.
Reagan was a popular actor-turned-governor who made his money as a spokesman for General Electric.
Microchip-testing-equipment maker Advantest Corp. and industrial-robot maker Yaskawa Electric Corp. have confirmed that they placed pension money with AIJ.
More than 85% of U.S. households have cable modem or DSL service available to them, he says, so it doesn't make sense for a utility to spend the money to deploy broadband over gas or electric in most of the country.
Officials decided to invest some money in trialling alternative transport systems, and electric buses seemed a perfect option.
Morgan Stanley has raised money for Tesla Motors, a producer of electric cars, and it has invested in Bloom Energy, an innovator in fuel-cell technology.
Electric lighting is no great boon to anyone who has money enough to buy a sufficient number of candles and to pay servants to attend to them.
Spokesman Cardenas counters that the city's health care sector will grow 10% by the end of the year, and federal stimulus money will revolutionize businesses for car batteries and electric vehicles.
This could involve you changing your light fittings from incandescent to fluorescent, or even changing your gas and electric service providers, and will help you to save money on the daily, weekly and annual costs of your household heating.
Unlike Toshiba or Mitsubishi Electric, both financially far weaker firms, Hitachi has the money to do whatever it wants.
You, on the other hand, must give money to build battery factories without knowing how many electric cars will be built to use the batteries.
And just think of the possibilities if you are trying to raise money for an unfinanceable solar cell, windmill, electric car, biofuel, or battery company!
There he pored over books on the 19th century's Industrial Revolution, trying to figure out who really had made money on the advances in steam, gasoline and electric motors.
The Obama Administration, dreaming of a million electric cars on the road by 2015, loaned Ford the money to help it pay for development of hybrids and EVs, and to retool its factories to produce smaller, cleaner vehicles.
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No business has invested more money -- or creativity -- in education than New England Electric Wire Corp.
The company said it plans to use that money to expand manufacturing capacity and accelerate development of batteries for the hybrid electric vehicle market.
Winning bidders Norte Energia, a group of government run electric power companies and a handful of private investment firms, is struggling to raise money to get Belo going.
So when General Electric argues that fielding two competing engines for the F-35 fighter can save money and enhance performance, that implies certain actions on the part of the government that have precisely the opposite effect in the near term.
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Banks, of course, raise money for less environmentally friendly corporations, too, such as Ford, General Electric, and ExxonMobil, which need cash to fund their operations.
In an age where green travel and eco-focused marketing continue to grow, car rental companies are bolstering their rental fleets with electric and hybrid cars, giving travellers the opportunity to reduce their carbon footprint, save money at the pump and take one of these new-technology vehicles for a spin before perhaps buying one of their own.
Environmentally correct planners put all this public money to work to relieve the technology bottleneck they believed held back our transition to electric cars.
The government hopes to raise half the money by privatising profitable state-owned firms, such as Pohang Iron and Steel and Korea Electric Power.
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