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Andrzejewski threw 36 times, completing 20 for 181 yards. He also threw three interceptions and was sacked five times. But those last numbers say more about the quality of Columbia's offensive line (think GE toaster after the warranty expires) than Andrzejewski's play...
When BARRY DILLER quit last fall as chairman of Fox, where he ran the film studio as well as the television network, he said he wanted to own something. Something sizable. Apparently he has been trying to buy the NBC television network from GE. The deal fizzled this summer, but Diller has told friends that "a window of opportunity" remains for the revised proposal he is preparing...
...with its 5,000 suppliers in search of ways to firm up quality while trimming as much as $4 billion, or 13%, from its $30 billion parts-and-supplies budget. As a result, its longtime relationship with GENERAL ELECTRIC is on the line. A GM supplier since the 1920s, GE makes 60 million tiny light bulbs every year for GM dashboard displays, trunks and glove compartments. Now GM has located a Japanese company whose light bulbs cost 20% more but last 40% longer, and it has challenged GE to close the savings...
Attempts to defraud the U.S. government in a sale of military jet engines to Israel wound up costing General Electric $69 million. In a Cincinnati federal court, GE's aircraft-engine division settled civil and criminal charges of conspiring with an Israeli air force general to bill the Pentagon for fictitious parts and testing equipment. A GE manager stationed in Israel between 1984 and 1989 blew the whistle on his employer two years...
When Otisca's preferred stockholders, the five companies that had invested $8 million in the company, were asked to pony up the private portion of the doe matching grant, they bailed out. GE, the largest and most influential of the five, was more interested in the locomotive business, not in fixed boilers, which were the concern of the particular Energy Department office in Pittsburgh that sponsored the Otisca application. At Norfolk Southern, the two top corporate executives who had supported Otisca had retired and their successors were focusing on near-term marketing projects. Only one of the five, Zurn Industries...