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To: Rocket Scientist who wrote (7204)	1/13/2000 5:45:00 PM
From: brian h	Respond to of 10852

RS, Boeing to Buy Hughes Satellite Businesses for $3.75 Billion. Seattle, Jan. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Boeing Co. agreed to buy some Hughes Electronics Corp. satellite businesses for $3.75 billion in cash, making it the world's No. 1 maker of satellites and accelerating a push beyond aircraft-building. The purchase includes Hughes' satellite-manufacturing operations and two smaller businesses that make electronic components and solar cells for satellites. The businesses had sales of $2.3 billion last year and employ about 9,000, mainly in the Los Angeles area. Hughes is a unit of General Motors Corp. Brian H. I just the answer. It is $3.75 billion.