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The General Electric Company, or GE (NYSE: GE) is a multinational technology and services company. Going into 2005, it was the world's largest corporation in terms of market capitalization ([1]). It should not be confused with The General Electric Company plc, which was renamed Marconi plc in 1999. In the 1960s, peculiarities in U.S. tax laws and accounting practices made it fashionable to assemble conglomerates. GE, which was a conglomerate long before the term was coined, is one of the very few corporations to a ...

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• General Electric - History
• General Electric - Today
• General Electric - GE subsidiaries
• General Electric - Jack Welch
• General Electric - Corporate information
• General Electric - Analyst coverage
• General Electric - Financials

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Universal has several meanings: Universalism - properties of universality in concepts or application For the concept of a universal in metaphysics, see Universal (metaphysics). Catholicism derives from the Greek katholikos, meaning "universal." Universal Corporation, traded under symbol UVV on the New York Stock Exchange Universal may also refer to Universal Studios (owned by the parent company NBC Universal) Universal may also refer to

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Warcraft III - Plot. Similar to how Starcraft was told, the story in Warcraft III is told through all four races in a progressive manner. The order is Human, Undead, Orc, and Night Elf. Warcraft III - Prologue campaign: Exodus of the Horde. Thrall, Warchief to the last of the Orcish Horde, wakes from a nightmare that foresees the return of the Burning Legion. After a brief encounter with the prophet, fearing that his vision was more than a nightmare, leads his peo ...

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Warcraft III, Warcraft III - Overview, Warcraft III - Collector's Edition, Warcraft III - Gameplay, Warcraft III - Multiplayer, Warcraft III - Professional players, Warcraft III - Reign of Chaos, Warcraft III - Plot, Warcraft III - Prologue campaign: Exodus of the Horde, Warcraft III - Human campaign: The Scourge of Lordaeron, Warcraft III - Undead campaign: Path of the Damned, Warcraft III - Orc campaign: The Invasion of Kalimdor, Warcraft III - Night Elf campaign: Eternity's End, Warcraft III - The Frozen Throne expansion, Warcraft III - Plot, Warcraft III - Night Elf campaign, Warcraft III - Alliance campaign, Warcraft III - Undead campaign, Warcraft III - Orc mini-campaign, Warcraft III - Spin-offs, Warcraft III - Modding, Warcraft III - Custom maps, Warcraft III - Quotations

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The channel initially began broadcasting on July 31, 1989, and it originally broadcast from studios in Halifax, Toronto, Winnipeg and Calgary, reflecting the coast-to-coast nature of the service. Budget cuts over the years eventually forced CBC Newsworld to centralize most of its operations in Toronto and Calgary. Unlike the CBC's main television network, which is publicly funded by Canadian taxpayers, Newsworld's primary funding comes from cable subscriber fees, although both networks also accept commercial advertising. Newsworld's French language count ...

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CBC Newsworld, CBC Newsworld - History, CBC Newsworld - Programming, CBC Newsworld - Newsworld International

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Blizzard North was originally an independent company. It was established in 1993 under the name Condor, with the founders being Max Schaefer, Erich Schaefer, and David Brevik. The company was purchased and renamed by Blizzard about six months before the release of their hit game, Diablo, in 1996. Diablo proved to be a considerable success, and the still-more successful sequel Diablo II was released in 2000. ...

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Blizzard North, Blizzard North - History, Blizzard North - Games, Blizzard North - As Condor, Blizzard North - As Blizzard North

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Soon after the beginning of the game's introduction, the player begins the investigation in the Anekbah sector. He uncovers information that suggests the serial killer he is looking for is in fact not human but actually a demon. When members of an apparent underground, anti-government movement contact the player and confirm his suspicions, the investigation deepens and uncovers information; one of Omikron's chief police commanders (Commandant Gandhar) is a demon pretending to be human and lures human souls into Omikron from other dimensions ...

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Omikron - The Nomad Soul, Omikron - The Nomad Soul - Synopsis, Omikron - The Nomad Soul - Story, Omikron - The Nomad Soul - Gameplay, Omikron - The Nomad Soul - Trivia

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NBC Universal has its modern roots in a series of expansions undertaken by NBC. In the late 1980s, NBC began pursuing a strategy of diversification, including the formation of two NBC-owned cable-television networks, CNBC and America's Talking. NBC also has partial ownership of several regional sports channels and other cable channels, such as Court TV and American Movie Classics. NBC Super Channel reache ...

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NBC Universal, NBC Universal - Television, NBC Universal - Film, NBC Universal - Parks and resorts

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One of the first criticisms of the game is that there is no sandbox feature in the game. The bulk of the game takes place in only 2 grids of pre-determined design, and some players have expressed disappointment that there was no goal-less aspect of the game, where one can spend time constructing elaborate lairs (and then testing them) Another issue some have expressed is in the nature of traps, one of the major gimmicks of the game. While interesting in concept, many times these traps are triggered by friendly minions, instead of the agents they were designed to defeat. As more dangerous enem ...

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Evil Genius game, Evil Genius game - Minions, Evil Genius game - Criticisms of Evil Genius

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In 1876, Thomas Alva Edison opened a new laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey. Out of the laboratory was to come perhaps the most famous invention of all—a successful development of the incandescent electric lamp. By 1890, Edison had organized his various businesses into the Edison General Electric Company. In 1879, Elihu Thomson and E. J. Houston formed the rival Thomson-Houston Company. It merged with various companies and was later led by Charles A. Coffin, a former shoe manufacturer from Lynn, Massachusetts. Mergers with competi ...

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General Electric, General Electric - History, General Electric - Today, General Electric - GE subsidiaries, General Electric - Jack Welch, General Electric - Corporate information, General Electric - Analyst coverage, General Electric - Financials

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Using the LACC, over 540,000 square feet (50,000 m²) are available for exhibition space across the five halls. The LACC is located over two blocks in downtown Los Angeles and shares a block with the Staples Center. Parking is available under the West Hall for $10 a day (as of E3 2005). E3 - Show floor. The show is exhibited over five halls: Kentia, Petree, South Hall, Concourse Hall, and the West Hall. Booth space is purchased ahead of time by publishers. The publishers, in turn, spend millions of dollars ...

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E3, E3 - Schedule, E3 - Layout, E3 - Show floor, E3 - Concourse Hall and lobbies, E3 - South Hall, E3 - Kentia and Petree Halls, E3 - West Hall

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F.E.A.R. computer game - Allies. This section covers the F.E.A.R. team as well as a single Delta Force member. Little is known about the player character, who is referred to as "The New Guy" by some of the F.E.A.R. team members, aside from his gender, and the fact that he has been on the team for only a week. He wears a mask, as seen in his reflections and game promotional artwork. His reflexes are well beyond the human norm, allowing him to perform maneuvers with surgical accuracy in an extremely ...

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F.E.A.R. computer game, F.E.A.R. computer game - Story, F.E.A.R. computer game - The Team, F.E.A.R. computer game - Characters, F.E.A.R. computer game - Allies, F.E.A.R. computer game - Enemies and Minor Characters, F.E.A.R. computer game - Organizations and terms, F.E.A.R. computer game - Trivia

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NBC - Radio. The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) radio network went on the air with twenty-four affiliated stations on November 15, 1926. It was owned by Radio Corporation of America (RCA), itself set up in 1919 to control Guglielmo Marconi's American patents; RCA in turn was owned by General Electric Company (GE), the Westinghouse Electric Corporation, the United Fruit Company and American Teleph ...

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NBC, NBC - History, NBC - Radio, NBC - Television, NBC - Evolution of the NBC logo, NBC - NBC News

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Technically, what differentiates a merger from an acquisition is how it is financed. Various methods of financing an M&A deal exist: Mergers and acquisitions - Merger. A "merger" or "merger of equals" is often financed by an all stock deal (a stock swap). An all stock deal occurs when all of the owners of stocks of either company get the same amount of stock in the new combined company. The term "demerger" is sometimes used to indicate the effective opposite of a merger, where one company splits into two, the second often being a sepa ...

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Mergers and acquisitions, Mergers and acquisitions - Financing M&A, Mergers and acquisitions - Merger, Mergers and acquisitions - Acquisition, Mergers and acquisitions - High-yield, Mergers and acquisitions - Motives behind M&A, Mergers and acquisitions - M&A and Investment Banking, Mergers and acquisitions - M&A marketplace difficulties, Mergers and acquisitions - Levels and flows, Mergers and acquisitions - Merger, Mergers and acquisitions - Classifications of mergers, Mergers and acquisitions - Issues, Mergers and acquisitions - Major Mergers & Acquisitions 1990-1999, Mergers and acquisitions - United States, Mergers and acquisitions - Europe, Mergers and acquisitions - Japan, Mergers and acquisitions - Major Mergers & Acquisitions 2000-2006, Mergers and acquisitions - United States, Mergers and acquisitions - Accounting, Mergers and acquisitions - Data, Mergers and acquisitions - Lists, Mergers and acquisitions - Notes and references

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Blizzard Entertainment was founded in February, 1991 as Silicon & Synapse by Mike Morhaime, Allen Adham and Frank Pearce. The company developed games like Rock & Roll Racing and The Lost Vikings (published by Interplay Productions). In 1994, the company briefly changed its name to Chaos Studios, before finally settling on Blizzard Entertainment after it was discovered that another company with the Chaos name already existed. That same year, they were acquired by distributor Davidson & Associates for under $10 million. Shortly thereafter, Blizz ...

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Blizzard Entertainment, Blizzard Entertainment - Overview, Blizzard Entertainment - Titles, Blizzard Entertainment - Bnetd, Blizzard Entertainment - FreeCraft, Blizzard Entertainment - Warden Client, Blizzard Entertainment - Trivia

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The original CNBC channel was launched in Fort Lee, New Jersey, on April 17, 1989. It merged in 1991 with the Financial News Network (FNN), and the name "Consumer News and Business Channel" was dropped. Both Sue Herera and Ted David are original anchors at CNBC and remain on the air there. Some reporters from FNN joined CNBC, like Ron Insana, Bill Griffeth, Joe Kernen and Jerry Cobb. At first, the network's business programming was branded "CNBC/FNN," but that was dropped in the mid-90's. CNBC was characterized by relatively high television ratings unt ...

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CNBC, CNBC - CNBC in the U.S., CNBC - Programming, CNBC - Past shows and anchors, CNBC - CNBC international channels, CNBC - List of CNBC channels

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Électricité de France - The opening of the electricity market. The decision to open the electricity market to competition at European level: directives 96/92/CE of December 19, 1996 and 2003/54/CE of June 26, 2003. Stages of the opening of the market in France are: February 19, 1999: 20% of the market - customers using more than 100 GWh. May 29, 2000: 30% of the market - customers using more than 16 GWh (1400 sites). February 10th, 2003: 37% of the market - customers using more th ...

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Électricité de France, Électricité de France - Major Reform 1996-2007, Électricité de France - The opening of the electricity market, Électricité de France - Status of EDF, Électricité de France - Issues of reform, Électricité de France - Social welfare system, Électricité de France - Opinions on reform, Électricité de France - Distribution network, Électricité de France - EDF's rivals, Électricité de France - Electrabel and Endesa, Électricité de France - Locally controlled or between local councils, Électricité de France - The EDF Group, Électricité de France - Main partners, Électricité de France - Negotiations between EDF and ENEL, Électricité de France - The directorate, Électricité de France - Statistics 2003 estimate, Électricité de France - EDF's logo, Électricité de France - External link, Électricité de France - Sources

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ADSL service has been available in Portugal since 2000, however it wasn't until 2002, with increased competition, that the service started to become appealing to the general public. The main telephone companies have since started to market packages that combine voice and ADSL services. These are becoming increasingly popular and are usually available from each company in the areas where they have setup their own infrastructre and are able to provide direct service. Prices for ADSL in Portugal are mostly flat, however a large majority of ISPs ...

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DSL around the world, DSL around the world - Australia, DSL around the world - Argentina, DSL around the world - Belgium, DSL around the world - Brazil, DSL around the world - Canada, DSL around the world - Czech Republic, DSL around the world - Egypt, DSL around the world - Finland, DSL around the world - France, DSL around the world - Germany, DSL around the world - Greece, DSL around the world - Hong Kong, DSL around the world - India, DSL around the world - Italy, DSL around the world - Iran, DSL around the world - Ireland, DSL around the world - Latvia, DSL around the world - Lithuania, DSL around the world - Mexico, DSL around the world - Morocco, DSL around the world - New Zealand, DSL around the world - Netherlands, DSL around the world - Norway, DSL around the world - Poland, DSL around the world - Portugal, DSL around the world - Saudi Arabia, DSL around the world - South Africa, DSL around the world - South Korea, DSL around the world - Spain, DSL around the world - Sri Lanka, DSL around the world - Sweden, DSL around the world - Switzerland, DSL around the world - Turkey, DSL around the world - United Kingdom, DSL around the world - United States

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Though initially confined to metropolitan cities, today virtually every city with a police force in excess of a handful of officers has a paramilitary tactical unit. A variety of abbreviations and acronyms are used for these organizations, which operate at federal, state, and local levels. SWAT - Federal agencies. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives Special Response Teams (SRT) Drug Enforcement Administration Mobile Enforcement Teams (MET) Federal Bureau of Investig ...

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SWAT, SWAT - History, SWAT - Training, SWAT - Tactics, SWAT - SWAT equipment, SWAT - Cultural references, SWAT - SWAT units in the United States, SWAT - Federal agencies, SWAT - State agencies, SWAT - County agencies, SWAT - Regional agencies and multi-agency mutual aid systems, SWAT - Nonmunicipal police departments, SWAT - City and town police departments, SWAT - Associations, SWAT - Synonyms for SWAT, SWAT - Similar units outside the United States

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The first three Crash games, as well as several subsequent Crash games, were platform games. Crash Bandicoot - Gameplay. The core gameplay in the Crash Bandicoot series is simple, but entertaining and quite addictive nonetheless.There are Aku Aku masks sparsely scattered throughout the levels. Collecting an Aku Aku mask while Crash already has one turns the one he has gold. Collecting another mask while Crash has a gold one grants Crash limited-time invincibility, after which the mask reverts ...

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Crash Bandicoot, Crash Bandicoot - The platformers, Crash Bandicoot - Gameplay, Crash Bandicoot - Crates, Crash Bandicoot - Characters, Crash Bandicoot - Mascot, Crash Bandicoot - Developers, Crash Bandicoot - Installments, Crash Bandicoot - Cameos, Crash Bandicoot - Crash in pop culture

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Starsiege contains a rich backstory and plot, which are conveyed to the player via three main sources. The first source is the Compendium, a 150-page booklet which came in the box. The Compendium contains all of the necessary backstory to understand the plot, as well as copious information on the various sides and characters involved in the story. The War Timeline is a running timeline in the game that starts with important events as far back as 2422 and extends all the way to the present time in the game, with updates after each comp ...

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Starsiege, Starsiege - Story, Starsiege - Background, Starsiege - Plot, Starsiege - Factions, Starsiege - Characters, Starsiege - Story Conflicts with Previous Games, Starsiege - Gameplay, Starsiege - Mechanics, Starsiege - Squadmates, Starsiege - Weapons, Starsiege - Vehicle Configuration, Starsiege - Customization, Starsiege - Fan Community, Starsiege - The Future

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The Adventures of Tintin - Tintin. The character of Tintin was created on January 10, 1929, and his 75th birthday was widely celebrated in 2004. Tintin was largely based on Hergé's earlier character Totor, a boy-scout with a striking resemblance to Tintin. The comics starring Totor, Les aventures de Totor, chef de patrouille des Hannetons, appeared in the magazine Le Boy-Scout Belge between 1926 and 1929. In the later comic book series, Tintin is a young Belgian reporter (as well as an accom ...

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The Adventures of Tintin, The Adventures of Tintin - Characters, The Adventures of Tintin - Tintin, The Adventures of Tintin - Captain Archibald Haddock Capitaine Archibald Haddock, The Adventures of Tintin - Professor Cuthbert Calculus Professeur Tryphon Tournesol, The Adventures of Tintin - Snowy Milou, The Adventures of Tintin - Thomson and Thompson Dupont et Dupond, The Adventures of Tintin - Minor characters, The Adventures of Tintin - Fictional countries, The Adventures of Tintin - Race and colonialism, The Adventures of Tintin - Stage adaptations, The Adventures of Tintin - Memorabilia, The Adventures of Tintin - Merchandise, The Adventures of Tintin - In the future, The Adventures of Tintin - In popular culture, The Adventures of Tintin - Reference

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