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Segway, which makes two-wheeled electric-powered scooters at $5300
each, sold more than 100 of these for use by police and other person-
nel from security agencies (see Figure 8.1).
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GE was signicantly involved in providing security for the Olympics. It
supplied detection systems at the Beijing airport to sniff out particles in
the air related to bombs or drugs. It installed video surveillance devices
on subways and in buildings. And it won the entire security contract for
the new headquarters of the Chinese national broadcaster CCTV.
The payoff for these companies is not just the revenue generated ...