34 research for new and better materials that in a highly technical economy, all of this emphasis on technology that this economy has, will continue to be an area of great interest to all of us and it's for those two reasons that I think we've experienced this growth rate in these materials businesses and why we have been pouring in the resources here. We've come out with a lot of new engineering plastics, as you know. We've been involved in carballoy(?) and Man-Made diamonds and on and on and on and these are all materials businesses that we think are going to be highly rewarding and moreso into the future. Now, third, the thrust of this new General Electric, if you will, has been an increased emphasis on our international activities. Our international sales activities, both, and here when I say both, I'm combining the export sales from the United States with the sales of our foreign affiliates, but these have been growing, these sales, at a rate 50 percent faster than the sales of the domestic company, the domestic sales, rather, and this, again, has changed the emphasis of the General Electric Company and If you look at those three thrusts, you will see that this merger with Utah impacts very heavily in two areas, materials and international, and this is one of the