41.   Both had sold bonds for the big maker of consumer electronics.

42.   -- Onsale Inc., a Mountain View, California, company that auctions computers and consumer electronics on the World Wide Web.

43.   A coalition of consumer electronics, computer and entertainment companies backing Toshiba were the winners in September in an industry battle to set the standards for the new disk.

44.   A company called Planetweb makes Internet software that goes into non-computer consumer electronics.

45.   A Japanese research team recently reported that it had created the first blue-light laser, a breakthrough that may translate into a hit for consumer electronics.

46.   After several years, Berlin hooked up with a major, Moscow-based dealer in consumer electronics and began brokering sales of televisions and other items.

47.   After that, the company will assess what synergies exist among its consumer electronics, business electronics and semiconductor and components divisions, all businesses that produce mass volumes.

48.   Akai is attempting to buy control of Kong Wah Holdings, the largest maker of color television sets and consumer electronics in south China.

49.   All this helped generate a boom in autos, appliances and consumer electronics that exceeds the typical rebound in sales after a relatively mild recession.

50.   But analysts said it was unreasonable to expect similar interest in many sales categories beyond consumer electronics.