I posted one link that mentioned 250K employees under Welch in the early 90's and here by 1998 it's already 300K.

http://ge.com/stories/en/20398.html?category=News

And your link does nothing more than provide a general comment that layoffs generally don't improve businesses, and that is generally true. In fact Welch himself preached that for years, but it is not true 100% of the time and it wasn't true with GE, which is exactly why the company turned around so dramatically under his tenure.

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JMS gets another English lesson:

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there is no "mostly unique;" thats like saying "sometimes always," its an oxymoron - its either one or the other.

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By the mid-19th century unique had developed a wider meaning, “not typical, unusual,” and it is in this wider sense that it is compared. The comparison of so-called absolutes in senses that are not absolute is standard in all varieties of speech and writing.