1.   Among Internet infrastructure companies, one of his favorites is Check Point Software Technologies, of Redwood City, Calif., which designs and makes Internet security software.

2.   -- This year, the number of consumer Internet firm closures declined as the shakeout spread to business infrastructure companies.

3.   A director of a major Hong Kong infrastructure company, one that is building large chunks of the project, chuckled when asked about the absence of Americans.

4.   A. We like the infrastructure companies.

5.   But we do own a tremendous amount of Internet infrastructure companies like Exodus Communications.

6.   Companies like Veritas Software, Computer Associates and Oracle are infrastructure software companies.

7.   Despite some concern, investors continue to be drawn to Cisco, Nortel and other Internet infrastructure companies, whose stocks remain among the most highly valued.

8.   Deutsche Telekom, which is preparing for a partial sale of shares next year, is the only telecommunications infrastructure company in Germany today.

9.   Even Britain, the cheerleader of free market economies in Europe, moved this month to, in effect, re-nationalize Railtrack, the rail infrastructure company.

10.   For example, among the most common defaulted bonds are those for infrastructure companies such as railroads -- the precursor to modern-day toll roads.