The magnets will only connect in one orientation, preventing you from pushing current through a component in the wrong direction and ruining it.

ENGADGET

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

FORBES: Fact and Comment

The main component of the current fiscal cliff squabbling, the income border beyond which the tax rate will increase, is clearly not a middle class issue.

FORBES: How Will The Middle Class Fare In The Battle Over The Fiscal Cliff?

Accounting ignores these critical details while finance incorporates them by using cash flow metrics rather than earnings metrics and a cost of capital measure that reflects current interest rates plus a component for a company's overall riskiness.

FORBES: The P/E Problem

By the same token the thirty-year hiatus in construction of new nuclear plants following Three Mile Island limited another important component of our energy mix and reduced our current options.

FORBES: Looking Beyond The Oil Spill

This remains a necessary component of the new model we seek, and it is a critical deficiency in our current relationship.

WHITEHOUSE: The White House

Current cellulose based plastics include large amounts of petroleum-based additives, which results in a low plant component ratio.

ENGADGET: NEC builds a better bioplastic from plant stems and cashew nut shells