1.   CAR component maker Behr, which makes air conditioning for Mercedes and BMW, is giving Welsh suppliers a chance to win orders from the company.

2.   Another disk drive component maker, Komag Inc., also pulled the index down.

3.   At that point, the components makers in a position to survive would be those with a full line of wares they can produce and sell in large volumes.

4.   Component makers frequently agree to requirements that they sell to competing systems makers -- Northrop, in this case -- on nondiscriminatory terms.

5.   Component makers such as Western Digital appear to be bearing the brunt of a rush by PC makers to sell less-expensive products.

6.   Dresdner Kleinwort Benson favors seven top exporters --Toyota, Honda, Sony, TDK Corp., Canon Inc., and electronics components makers Hoya Corp. and Rohm Co.

7.   For years, aerospace components makers have joked that airplanes are simply tubes of aluminum on which to hang their products.

8.   Harrison recently bought shares of bank holding company National City Corp. and electronic components maker AVX Corp.

9.   He says a dozen local component makers have gone bankrupt in the past two years, and many more will do so.

10.   He sold Bookham partly because he was looking for a hedge against his investment in New Focus, a fiber optics component maker.