Its Over, page-466

This happens to one of the most well managed and respectedstocks in US ...nothing is to be ever taken for granted.

This is a reason why Buy Hold and Forget can be a dangerousproposition...

A lot of investors buy stocks for dividends e.g banks, Telstrabut the fundamentals of blue chip companies are increasingly shifting as iswith GE....continue holding these companies for dividend without any awarenessof such shifting fundamentals could cause you to lose capital in ways you havechoose to become totally oblivious.

It is not in the interest of management of blue chip stocks toforewarn you of changing fundamentals and underlying structural weakness inbusiness model...