Their smaller size gives them less diversification, less geographic spread. So you have a little bit more risk with them. Those companies are about $16 billion market cap companies, whereas BP Amoco is a $200 billion company. So you can compare BP Amoco to a GE in terms of its size and diversification.


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Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
ED O'BRIEN
We are a weird bunch, we are very disparate.
ED O'BRIEN
It is fantastic to be found in a foreign country.
ED O'BRIEN
All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring ab...
ED MCMAHON
The majority of people who buy homes in golf course communities don't play golf. Golf is way dow...
ED MCMAHON
Golf courses sell real estate and that's why they're built.
ED MCMAHON
Johnny once described our relationship by saying we were as close as two people could be without bei...
ED MCMAHON
You can grow without destroying the things that you love.
ED MCMAHON
There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great t...
ED MCMAHON
There was a time... when people didn't go out of their house on Tuesday night at eight o'clo...
ED MCMAHON
Like Venice, Italy, New Orleans is a cultural treasure. And everyone who lived in the city should be...
ED MCMAHON
It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really...
ED MCMAHON
Detroit is saying that the hydrogen vehicle is the vehicle of the future. But it's 15 years from...
ED MARKEY
The problem is, is that President Bush and the Republican leadership in the Congress have resisted a...
ED MARKEY
Well, as you know, General Motors does not make hybrids. Ford only made 4,000 hybrids last year.
ED MARKEY
Just this week, Syria broke off all relations with the United States military and the CIA.
ED MARKEY
The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their c...
ED MARKEY
The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
ED MARKEY
Hope is the most important four-letter word in the language.
ED MARKEY
Our nation's security, economy, and place on the world stage depends on the success our educatio...
ED MARKEY
You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.
ED MARKEY
Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety stan...
ED MARKEY
The segregated schools of today are arguably no more equal than the segregated schools of the past.
ED MARKEY
People really feel that, when they go to the gas pump now, that the oil cartel is holding them by th...
ED MARKEY
It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventa...
ED MARKEY
The Brown decision promised that every child, regardless of the color of his or her skin, would have...
ED MARKEY
We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in ...
ED MARKEY
In Uzbekistan, hundreds of protesters were recently killed under the corrupt regime of President Kar...
ED MARKEY
However, while we should certainly celebrate the demise of overt official racism, we must also criti...
ED MARKEY
Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel ec...
ED MARKEY
First responders will be on the frontlines if there is a terrorist attack in our communities, and we...
ED MARKEY
Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and w...
ED MARKEY