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`` Jack still plans to announce his successor in mid-2000 , so this is business as usual for us , '' said Beth Comstock , a GE spokeswoman .
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Corporate wags have long referred to GE as `` the House that Jack built. ''
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He whittled away at GE 's bloated staff long before downsizing became a buzzword , earning him the rubric of Neutron Jack _ someone who kills off the people but leaves the physical assets intact .
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He divested all businesses in which GE was not dominant _ a strategy that has been adopted by numerous American companies .
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He is pushing all of GE 's divisions into e-commerce with such fervor that many analysts say that GE will soon be the most Internet-savvy of the non-dot- com companies .
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Welch has also turned GE into what he calls a `` boundary-less '' organization , a place where executives are rewarded for sharing insights and customer contacts and castigated for keeping good ideas to themselves .
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`` He turned GE away from the idea of supreme rulers and introduced it to team structures , '' said Nicholas P . Heymann , an analyst with Prudential Securities .
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But who , in fact , will be the next No . <num> at GE ?
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Gary M . Reiner , <num> , GE 's chief information officer , has led many of the company 's initial forays onto the Web .
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David L . Calhoun , <num> , the new head of GE Capital , GE 's biggest and most profitable unit , is often cited as a dark horse candidate .
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Still , although no one will say so for the record , the odds-on favorite is Jeffrey R . Immelt , head of GE Medical Systems .
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He was the first GE executive to use Six Sigma not only to refine processes but to design a product .
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Shares of GE have ridden a roller coaster over the last week .
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GE fell <num> cents Tuesday , to $ <num> .
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`` A strong quarter is business as usual for GE , but this quarter was even better than normal , '' said Charles Hill , director of research at First Call .
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Investors seemed unimpressed as shares of GE , based in Fairfield , Conn . , fell $ <num> , to $ <num> .
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`` Most industrial companies are experiencing no more than <num> percent organic growth , so GE 's results are just phenomenal , '' said Jeffrey Sprague , an analyst at Salomon Smith Barney .
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The numbers did little to help handicap the race to succeed Jack Welch , the GE chairman , who will retire next year .
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GE Power Systems had a particularly robust quarter , with sales up <num> percent .
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All makers of turbines had growth spurts as utilities continued their buying spree , but analysts say that GE grabbed share away from competitors like ABB and Siemens .
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GE Medical nearly doubled its sales of X-ray machines , while sales of CAT scanners and ultrasound machines were up more than <num> percent .
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Thanks to robust sales of high-margin services , GE Aircraft Engines saw its profit rise <num> percent on a revenue increase of just <num> percent .
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Even without new reality or game shows , GE 's television network , NBC , held onto a high share of viewers aged <num> to <num> _ the ones advertisers pay most to reach .
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Earnings at GE Capital , meanwhile , were up <num> percent on a revenue rise of <num> percent .
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Analysts expect those earnings to rise even higher as GE Capital continues to de-emphasize businesses like the leasing of rail cars in favor of those featuring financial services .
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GE , never short of cash , will soon have even more .
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GE owns part of PaineWebber and should reap $ <num> billion from the deal .
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Gary Sheffer , a GE spokesman , insists that GE was not consulted on the merger and has not yet made plans for the money .
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GE , in fact , bought back $ <num> million in stock during the quarter .
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Wright , <num> , will continue at NBC 's helm , a seat he has occupied for nearly <num> years , and will be responsible for overseeing GE 's media interest in his new role , the company said .
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`` Bob 's a visionary with a great strategic mind , and he 's a strong business leader with outstanding people skills , '' GE chairman and chief executive Jack Welch said in a statement .
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In the future , analyst Lawrence Horan said , NBC could play an increasingly vital role as GE puts an added emphasis on the communications and information fields .
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GE 's decision to broaden Wright 's influence , he added , reflects that commitment .
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Shares of GE were down <num> 3/8 , or <num> percent , to <num> 1/8 in afternoon trading .
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More than <num> GE jobs have been axed under Welch , in a series of downsizings that have devastated old industrial towns like Pittsfield and Schenectady , N.Y . Did Welch need to be so hard-nosed ?
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Along the way he sold off underperforming divisions and fired about <num> people , thus earning himself the name `` Neutron Jack . ''
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`` At Any Cost '' is actually a remarkably one-sided book about Welch 's tenure at GE .
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When Jack Welch took over GE in <num> , he inherited a slow-moving , bureaucratic company .
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At the same time he moved GE into service businesses like entertainment and finance that promised greater growth and higher returns .
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Welch did n't invent the forces of modern capitalism .
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Between <num> and <num> GE 's stock price rose <num> percent .
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He calls the failure of a new GE refrigerator in the 1980s `` one of the greatest fiascoes in modern engineering. ''
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The author spends a full <num> pages describing the government 's attempt to prosecute GE for price fixing in the industrial diamond business .
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Could the transformation of GE have been accomplished in a more humane way ?
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In his <num> years as GE 's chief executive officer , Welch has generated enormous wealth not only for the company 's stockholders but for hundreds of companies that do business with GE .
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People are not going to buy it for its plot , character development or sex appeal .
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Unlike Chrysler 's Lee Iacocca , whose story sold an astonishing <num> million hardcover books , Welch did not rescue a large American company from bankruptcy , nor does he have Iacocca 's promotional flair .
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People will buy Welch 's book because it will be marketed as the definitive text of modern American business practices .
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But a lot of people think he has all the answers , and Time Warner is betting that that there are at least <num> million people willing to pay good money to find out what they are .
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GE was famous for , even admired for its layers of sector managers , department managers , unit managers and supervisors , all of whom were thought to be essential to strategic planning and quality control .
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Freed of fuzzy paternalism , the people who remained were encouraged to think for themselves and question the corporate culture , resulting not only in technological innovation but in huge cost savings .
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Key events in the history of Cambodia 's Khmer Rouge movement : ___ _ 1949-52 : Saloth Sar , later known as Pol Pot , goes to Paris on government scholarship and becomes absorbed with communist ideology .
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<num> : Vietnam invades Cambodia to stop Khmer Rouge border attacks .
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Pol Pot died in April in a Khmer Rouge guerrilla camp in western Cambodia , apparently of natural causes .
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He was the titular head of the Khmer Rouge guerrillas during the civil war from <num> to <num> , and then was briefly head of state of Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge period .
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Three international jurists hired by the United Nations are in Cambodia , looking at the evidence against the most important Khmer Rouge leaders and assessing the feasibility of trials .
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NEW YORK _ After months of wavering , Cambodia Friday officially rejected U.N . recommendations to convene a tribunal to try surviving senior Khmer Rouge leaders , seeming to kill any chance of an international court .
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Hor Nam Hong , Cambodia 's foreign minister , flew to New York and informed U.N . Secretary General Kofi Annan that Cambodia would hold a trial of Khmer Rouge leaders in its own courts .
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The Cambodian trial would cover the period from <num> to <num> when the Khmer Rouge governed Cambodia , taking the lives of <num> million Cambodians .
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But Hor Nam Hong said Friday that with the help of international jurists , Cambodia could try the Khmer Rouge in the country where `` we were all their victims . ''
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Khmer Rouge rule in Cambodia was one of the modern world 's most brutal regimes .
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Ieng Sary with several thousand Khmer Rouge forces broke away from the guerrilla movement and crossed over to the government of Cambodia in August last year .
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PHNOM PENH , December <num> -LRB- Xinhua -RRB- -- Cambodia 's Top Khmer Rouge political leader Khieu Samphan has surrendered to the government , a local radio reported Saturday .
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In his letter , Hun Sen reiterated that `` We have never rejected the accountability of the Khmer Rouge leaders for the crimes of genocide in Cambodia . ''
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The U.N . experts came to Cambodia last November to investigate the Khmer Rouge issues and made the report to Kofi Annan .
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Cambodia objected to a foreign panel of judges , arguing that this kind of tribunal would violate the country 's sovereign powers , and the national parliament effectively vetoed the idea .
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Ieng Sary , who did not take sides in Cambodia 's recent political turmoil , arrived here on Tuesday for the first time since the Khmer Rouge was driven from power by a Vietnamese invasion in early <num> .
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Cambodian leader Hun Sen says that upcoming elections will be more peaceful than polls in <num> monitored by the United Nations , thanks largely to the collapse of the Khmer Rouge .
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Hun Sen said that the government will place <num> soldiers and civilians at the disposal of the National Electoral Commission , the body overseeing the polls , to ensure a stable election environment .
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The Cambodian government 's decision to welcome back into the fold five important leaders of the dying Khmer Rouge rebel movement smacked of hypocrisy , ousted co- premier Prince Norodom Ranariddh said Saturday .
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But his actions were not treated as a victory heralding the end of the guerrilla movement , as Hun Sen 's recently have been .
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A trio of veteran rebel leaders , including Khieu Samphan , still remains in the jungle , along with perhaps several hundred followers while smaller bands of Khmer Rouge roam remote areas of the country .
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Any trial of surviving Khmer Rouge leaders implicated in genocide and other crimes against humanity should take place on Cambodian soil , Prime Minister Hun Sen said in an interview published Thursday .
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Doubtful that Khmer Rouge military chief Ta Mok and other surviving rebels could be apprehended , the prime minister suggested a Cambodian trial instead .
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The rebel 's historically close relationship with the Thai military and the reintegration of several top Khmer Rouge _ also possible defendants _ into the Cambodian government are seen as a potential stumbling blocks to a trial .
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Ieng Sary , a deputy prime minister in the Khmer Rouge regime , received an amnesty from the government in <num> in exchange for leading a mass defection of rebel fighters that crippled the movement .
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Earlier today , Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Khieu Samphan and Nuon Chea , members of Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot 's inner circle during the group 's brutal 1975-79 rule , must be tried for genocide .
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Fernando Henrique Cardoso became Brazil 's first re-elected president today , vowing to continue modernizing the economy while battling the country 's deep social inequality .
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He is the first Brazilian president to take advantage of a <num> constitutional change allowing the head of state to serve a second term .
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Leader Confident on Khmer Rouge Case
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In addition to the political cross-currents that complicate a resolution to the country 's past conflicts , there is a network of often-hidden personal relationships that keeps past debts and rivalries alive .
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Among these are Khieu Samphan , the movement 's nominal head of state , and Nuon Chea , a top ideologist , who both surrendered to the government on Dec . <num> .
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The Vietnamese discovered the archival records of the Khmer Rouge bureaucracy that disclosed the systematic torture and killing of Cambodians as well as the killing fields that held the remains of the victims .
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Along with Pol Pot , they oversaw the Khmer Rouge and their reign of terror , during which at least <num> million Cambodians are estimated to have been executed or to have died of starvation , disease and overwork .
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The king , who has close ties to the Chinese government and is undergoing medical treatment in Beijing , headed the country for more than two decades .
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In the past the Cambodian leader , Hun Sen , has favored prosecuting Khmer Rouge leaders , whose regime in the late 1970s killed more than <num> million people .
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The minister also announced that his government has rejected the recommendation that a truth commission be convened to try lesser figures in the Khmer Rouge movement .
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Nuon Chea , his second-in-command , surrendered in December with a fellow Khmer Rouge leader , Khieu Samphan , to the Cambodian government .
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In his <num> letter requesting the aid of the United Nations in setting up a tribunal , Hun Sen said his country did not have the `` resources or the expertise '' to conduct a trial .
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A number of former Khmer Rouge officials from the movement that devastated the country from <num> to early <num> are now in government or other influential positions .
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PHNOM PENH , October <num> -LRB- Xinhua -RRB- -- Cambodian Second Prime Minister Hun Sen held talks earlier today with former Khmer Rouge leader Ieng Sary , but the details of the talks were not disclosed .
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The meeting took place at Hun Sen 's suburban villa .
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The surrender took place Friday and Khieu Samphan has moved to the western town of Pailin under the government troops .
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Speaking to the press , Eckhard said no date had been set for the visit by the chief legal counsel , Hans Corell and it would take place when a mutually convenient time can be agreed upon .
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After seizing power in <num> , the Khmer Rouge turned Cambodia into a slave labor camp and caused the deaths of as many as <num> million people .
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He portrays himself as a human-rights advocate who `` never condoned the class struggle and violation of human rights '' after the Khmer Rouge came to power in <num> .
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The Khmer Rouge seized power in <num> and killed as many as <num> million Cambodians in a bid to create a communist agrarian utopia .
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The Khmer Rouge came to power in April <num> by overthrowing the U.S . -backed Lon Nol government .
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<num> : Khmer Rouge seizes power , begins doomed experiment in agrarian communism .
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The defectors were key players in the Khmer Rouge 's rule after the Maoist revolutionaries won a civil war in <num> .
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