Under that heading you might call "American Progress" came the sense of American mission: spreading liberty, spreading democracy, spreading Christianity.
Though farfetched, such a scenario is what we are heading towards and it makes more sense now to have the next generation software capabilities in portfolio than dominating a market facing obsolescence.
At the same time, GE officials did a lot of what Elizabeth Comstock, chief marketing officer, calls "pulsing, " in Washington, to sense where Congress and regulators might be heading, especially on the issue of carbon dioxide emissions.
