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...entertainment is a $9 billion-to-$14 billion business run with the same kind of thought and attention to detail that you'd find at GE, Mattel or Tribune Co." LARRY FLYNT, publisher of Hustler magazine, arguing against more stringent health and safety measures in the wake of an AIDS scare that has shut down production of most porn films...
...cold, remember: money has no emotions, and presumably you would still like to retire one day. Building terrorism protection into your portfolio isn't unpatriotic. Ask Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of General Electric, who in March inked a deal to take over InVision Technologies, a bomb-detection company. GE paid dearly: $50 a share, or 33 times expected earnings and double the price of a year ago. You think Immelt isn't buying protection for GE? The greater the threat, the better the business for InVision...
...Artists in Residence at Harvard. The quartet will be performing this Friday as part of a year-long series of performances. The program includes Janacek’s Quartet No. 1 “Kreutzer Sonata;” a selection of music by Zhou Long, Chen Yi and Ge Ganru; Tchaikovsky’s Quartet No. 1 in D, Op.11. Tickets free, limit two per person. 8 p.m. Paine Hall...
...miles of rail, at $2 million a mile. With delays persisting along the busy transcon route, crews are out in the barren expanses of the Texas-Oklahoma Panhandle finishing up a two-year project to double track 100 miles of rail. BNSF is also rushing to add 344 GE locomotives--at a price of $1.3 million each--before federal investment incentives expire and more stringent pollution-control standards become...
...entering," Breen says. "My first day, almost 20% of our investor base showed up--in the third hour--in my office." They wanted to know how Breen was going to restore credibility to a health-care, electronics and security-alarm company that once aspired to be the next GE before Kozlowski's fall brought it to disrepute. The new CEO moved quickly. In his first six months he replaced Tyco's board of directors wholesale, fired the entire top corporate team and hired 80 executives to fill their spots. He also set out to restructure the company's $24 billion...