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Speaker 1: go on the Bloomberg Karen, thank you very much for

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Speaker 1: spending time, and then tell me about GE. Boy, this

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Speaker 1: had a negative another tough quarter in terms of organic growth.

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Speaker 1: everything weighs on their power business. They there big turbines.

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