GE's near-term and long-term outlook now appears the best it has been in almost a decade.

We'll get a better handle about how can this company, in a non-growth environment ,can grow at an above-average rate,

I hardly expect to have any surprises. The surprise will come from GE helping people understand what can be done and will be done in the future. Instead of telling you a bunch of random numbers, we in fact may have ability to build a relevant quarterly earnings model.

What's dangerous about this is we don't know its potential. For the present, everything hinges on what we find out in China, as far as our projections [are concerned].

Polio is not only an issue in Indonesia ... but it's an international issue. That virus, just as it came here from the African continent, could now go from here to a neighboring country and become implanted in that country if protection rates for polio were low.

We believe the outbreak has come to a peak in these areas because of information that ministries of health have given us.