1.   As a result, he said, the inventory adjustment may occur much more rapidly than in past cycles.

2.   Company spokesman Bo Piela said the inventory adjustment puts the company in a better position to meet demand.

3.   Michael Murphy, editor of the California Technology Stock Letter, says the weakness in the spot-memory market is mainly an inventory adjustment.

4.   Most analysts say the inventory adjustment is now largely complete, removing one impediment to more robust growth.

5.   National said shipments in the current quarter have been slowed by inventory adjustments in the personal-computer market, as manufacturers slowed their production rates.

6.   The central bank will closely monitor industrial production and inventory adjustment figures for the October-December quarter, Matsushima said.

7.   The major, unanswered question for the Fed and private economists is whether the inventory adjustment will be followed by much needed business demand and capital spending.

8.   Weather, grass resources and price fluctuations can slow or accelerate the culling of cows, or inventory adjustment.

9.   Where the analysts differ is over how much residual power the economy has to slog through the inventory adjustment on its own without help from the Fed.

10.   A halt in the decline of industrial production due to progress in inventory adjustment has also boosted confidence, the BOJ said.