1.   Isaac bullied his way into second, a gear not made for the speed they had accumulated.

2.   Besides the automotive industry, Shell plans to target business machines, since Carilon can be used to make gears for products such as computer printers and photocopiers.

3.   Alteon makes equipment to speed up traffic at Web sites and Juniper makes gear that sends data quickly across the Internet and other networks.

4.   Ciena, of Linthicum, Md., makes advanced gear that allows phone companies to transmit much more information over their fiber optic networks.

5.   It makes gears for motors that go mostly into restaurant dishwashers, rotisseries and other commercial kitchen equipment.

6.   Many designers, like Donna Karan, Ralph Lauren and Armani, make performance gear, and track pants are an inevitable expression of this Seventh Avenue trend.

7.   Meanwhile, factories making tech gear are standing idle.

8.   Redstone, which makes gear that pools data traffic at the edge of big networks, has been a big success.

9.   Reebok, Starter and Logo Athletic make sideline gear for NFL coaching staffs and players.

10.   Roby, an inspector at the Springfield factory, had warned that the metal used to make gears for the helicopter contained a common but potentially dangerous flaw.