In order to avoid power outages from component and equipment failures, analysts believe the industry will replace 0.5% to 1.0% of transmission mileage annually over the next two decades.

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Analysts continue to predict higher component costs and possible product shortages in the weeks ahead as companies including Toshiba Corp.

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Analysts tend to ignore a crucial component of current-account flows: U.S. multinationals' selling their products from one foreign country to another.

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Analysts expected Coke, a Dow component, to earn 45 cents a share.

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Debt collection is a major component of Capital One's business that gets little attention from analysts and investors.

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While analysts believe there are plenty of buying opportunities, volatility still remains a key component.

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BizTalk Orchestration: A component of the BizTalk Server 2000, BizTalk Orchestration is designed to let developers and business analysts work together to define and modify business processes in applications using a visual, workflow-like interface, instead of having to do so at the more complex and cryptic "low-level" software interface level.

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The Walt Disney Co. (DIS) joins the earnings parade after the close of trading this afternoon, with Wall Street analysts looking for a modest year-over-year improvement from the Dow Jones Industrial Average component.

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