Nearly two decades later, the stakes are even higher for companies like General Electric, News Corp.
Highlights: U.S. multinationals, like General Electric, Caterpillar, Microsoft and Wal-Mart, employ one-fifth of all American workers.
This ETF, with components like General Electric, Caterpillar and Boeing, surged on Tuesday, gaining nearly 15%.
Clipper Windpower has struggled to compete against big wind turbine makers like General Electric, Siemens and Vestas.
Companies like General Electric and Pepco Holdings wrote off their entire tax burdens and earned future offsets.
Its client list includes individuals such as Tiger Woods and Pete Sampras and companies like General Electric and Texaco.
Industry heavyweights like General Electric have been mentioned as possible suitors.
Through Carlson Wagonlit, the group is one of the world's biggest corporate travel managers, looking after companies like General Electric and Coca-Cola.
That means shooting schedules on scripted shows like General Electric-owned NBC's Las Vegas are getting pushed up, and more reality fare is on order.
Tice says that companies like General Electric (which last week announced plans to build the largest solar power factory in the United States) have approached D.
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Participating in the rally have been major banks like JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America, global conglomerates like General Electric and 3M, homebuilders and others.
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It was a nice victory for Philips, which is in an LED technological arms race with big traditional rivals like General Electric and dozens of small startups like Bridgelux.
That same logic helps explain the long-term staying power of companies like General Electric and United Technologies, both of which are major military contractors despite being focused mainly in commercial businesses.
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Big winners will include companies like General Electric and Siemens, that make advanced generating equipment, and companies that can reduce emissions and sell the excess on markets like the Chicago Climate Exchange.
They founded companies like General Electric that once employed 17, 000 people in Syracuse, brought the railroad to town, or made vast national fortunes that gave Syracuse University many of its first buildings.
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Meanwhile, companies like General Electric, Kodak, Dow Chemical and Ingersoll-Rand have indicated that they will displace American jobs by supplying the domestic market and markets in other countries with exports from their Chinese factories.
That means shooting schedules on scripted shows like General Electric (nyse: GE - news - people )-owned NBC's Las Vegas are getting pushed up, and more reality fare is on order.
It includes corporate tax reform that would close the loopholes that allow Obama political machine cronies like General Electric to avoid paying any taxes, and reduce the federal rate to a more internationally competitive 25%.
The company can also lean on a trade group, the U.S. Fuel Cell Council, whose members range from specialty companies like Fuel Cell Energy and Ballard Power Systems to giants like General Electric and United Technologies.
Giants like General Electric and Honeywell are involved, too, but Peters argues that the best chance for investors to cash in on the security trend is with the pure-play small fry (albeit ones with commercial applications, too).
In its green technologies fund (better known in Silicon Valley these days as "clean technology"), Kleiner Perkins is treading a similar path taken by global giants like General Electric and U.K. oil company BP, both of which have made investments in renewable technologies including wind and solar.
Kaplan also thinks some of the biggest companies have been unfairly punished simply because they're big, and he is bullish on the prospects for blue-chips like General Electric (nyse: GE - news - people ), IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ) and Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ).
In its green technologies fund (better known in Silicon Valley these days as "clean technology"), Kleiner Perkins is treading a similar path taken by global giants like General Electric (nyse: GE - news - people ) and U.K. oil company BP (nyse: BP - news - people ), both of which have made investments in renewable technologies including wind and solar.
Nearly two decades later, the stakes are even higher for companies like General Electric (nyse: GE - news - people ), News Corp. (nyse: NWS - news - people ), CBS (nyse: CBS - news - people ), Sony (nyse: SNE - news - people ) and Disney (nyse: DIS - news - people ).
They include names like DuPont and General Electric and these preferreds yield 6% on average.
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We saw reactions like those former General Electric CEO Jack Welch, who tweeted a suggestion of manipulation.
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Besides the companies overtly in this sector, we have a passel of stealth finance companies like Paccar and General Electric.
We should encourage companies like Nike and General Electric to invest there.
This is going to open up a huge market that will transcend Apple, Google, and Microsoft to players like Whirlpool and General Electric.
The cornerstone will be a mandatory "cap-and-trade" system to limit carbon emissions, currently being shaped with the influence of heavyweights like BP, General Electric and Duke Energy.
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