| 1 | "By 2012 or 2013, we' ll get the price down to around $20, " said Mr. van Tartwijk of Philips. | |
| 2 | The front of the hall is the province of the industry' s big three - Philips, Osram Sylvania, and General Electric, founded by Edison himself. | |
| 3 | Major lightbulb makers such as Philips and GE had already begun making the new, more efficient bulbs, and opposed the measure. | |
| 4 | In 1980, Philips became the first company to market a CFL, with a design based on a series of bends rather than GE' s spiral. | |
| 5 | Each morning for the past year, Chad Evans' s robot has sat with its back to a freeway in a double aisle of cubicles occupied by software designers at Philips Healthcare in Foster City, Calif. |