As the Guardian editorial notes, decades of development efforts have failed to live up to their advanced billing.

Mitsuoko had rather lived up to the subliminal advanced billing.

Turow is a product of the graduate writing program at Stanford University, having arrived there in the fall of 1970 with advanced billing.

Advanced billing for the spectacle, which has a limited engagement of five days, promises stimulating and perhaps even violent confrontation between good and evil.

Darrelle Revis and Antonio Cromartie have lived up to their advanced billing as stalwarts.

Sony BMG Music Entertainment released an advanced billing of the album, also incorrectly claiming that it was to feature a live version of "The Dreaming Tree."

John V. Roach, chairman of the Tandy Corporation, said, "If there's any surprise as far as we were concerned, it wasn't quite as closed, as proprietary, as some of the advanced billing had led us to believe."

However, several analysts on Wall Street said a large number of traders planned to sell short 3DO's stock, indicating that some traders were betting that the company, based in San Mateo, Calif., would not live up to its advanced billing.