The executives said they did not know of earlier shipments.

Early shipments have already gone out; general availability is set for the end of the year.

"We need to mask the source of our earlier shipments."

Only a few customers specified in their contracts that they required early shipments, he said.

Very mixed cargo was typical of early shipments to minimize this problem.

A third, "bonus" disc was included with early shipments of the album.

"They had an earlier shipment which was lost-by another carrier.

They were from Barvale's earlier shipments: the goods that had been reputed lost at sea.

The earlier shipments, totaling some $5 million, had been confiscated but then released, supposedly to the Palestinian government.

Israeli officials said there were at least three bungled attempts before that, including one earlier shipment by the Santorini.

Will Apple put a hold on early shipments like it has in years past, or will the company let them be delivered early?

Other than redirecting some early shipments, health officials will not be able to satisfy demands for quicker deliveries of more vaccine.

Early shipment allowed the album to be released on the artist's mother's birthday, to whom he had dedicated the album.

Save for a small early shipment of the birds themselves, they have been raised in Michigan from eggs gathered in the wild by the Chinese.

Some Western officials have speculated that the Croats might have allowed those earlier shipments to go through in return for a portion of the weapons.

A spokeswoman said that I.B.M. "does not forecast any revenue impact" from the early shipments.

Earlier shipments of Indian chemicals to Iraq and Iran have also raised United States concerns.

Some chicken in an early shipment to St. Petersburg spoiled when the Russian buyer failed to manage the cargo properly.

If he could do that, he could ,show a fine profit, what with the earlier shipments he had dispatched from villages farther south.

Except for some very early shipments from Waitara, frozen meat was transported to the port of New Plymouth by rail.

"You simply had early shipments," said Peter L. Aseritus, a First Boston analyst who had expected 95 deliveries.

NOTE: The early shipments of ML8 had a paint error on the Captain America figures.

Suppliers say demand for these symbols of spring is up 20 to 25 percent over last year among chefs, who get a jump on home cooks and receive early shipments.

At the time this, and an earlier shipment of 100,000 copies, almost doubled the number of Bibles in circulation in the USSR.

Earlier Shipments Hinted Mr. Inoue said Daikin executives knew that pure forms of the gas were strictly regulated.