The organic industry boasts that certified foods cannot contain GE ingredients, and various food companies and activist groups have created websites, pocket guides, and even smart phone apps that direct purchasers to GE-free products.

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In late 2001 the GE folks leasing 12 aircraft to the Denver airline offered some free counsel.

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As they sat in their cushy Avery Fisher Hall seats listening to ABC brass carry on with its digital opportunities and its self-adulating remarks, they weren't wrong to think the impossible was happening: that ABC would go the way of General Electric 's (nyse: GE - news - people ) NBC, which presented its fall slate glitz-free on Monday, and scale back on the pageantry.

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