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Most of Idaho only runs a backlog of about three days worth of food in their grocery stores, because we don't have any warehouses. If you don't have shipments backing that up, you could potentially have problems.

Vaughn Killeen

If U.S. beef shipments to Japan will come from a limited number of facilities, we can easily check their safety. But if not, it would be very difficult to do so.

Yasuhiro Yoshikawa

It back-end loads the full (year) shipment increase. Now, (second-half) shipments will have to be an aggressive 9-11 percent (higher) to stay within ... guidance.

Robin Farley

We have not experienced any problems with bean shipments to Cuba. All of our previous shipments have been shipped, received and paid for.

Bob Kelley

When some of these big companies realize how much money there is to make, those ports will start being able to take shipments.

Lynn Anderson

It really depends crucially on how many people you want to compensate. If you include farmers in Iowa [whose grain shipments have been disrupted], then it could expand mightily.

Rudolph Penner

The drop in oil prices appears to be to be due to continued growth in domestic oil inventories. In addition, there is a realization that efforts to deal with Iran's nuclear ambitions may be protracted over many months and an industry belief that they are unlikely to suspend their oil shipments any time soon.

Dawn Duffy

We have already started to discuss this issue with Chinese oil companies. We would like to have a firm in the People's Republic of China that would allow us to operate on the retail market. We would be more eager to make much larger shipments to China if we had an opportunity to sell oil products in that country.

Sergei Bogdanchikov

It's to preserve the integrity of our transportation system. You're talking a huge volume of [UPS] shipments.

Tom Branigan

Ironically, with all this strength, the net effect of these data on the fourth-quarter GDP number could be flat or possibly even marginally negative. This is because durable goods inventories were flat, which should more or less offset the positive influence of the stronger-than-anticipated December shipments figures. For first quarter GDP, however, these data are unambiguously positive.

Stephen Stanley

We often get massive shipments from our police department clients, but nothing like this. Our site is known for great bargains, and with the sheer volume of merchandise coming in, our bidders can expect to get truly amazing deals on this jewelry, computer equipment and other merchandise.

Tom Lane

As a category, games represent 50 percent of consumer PC software sales. This is an opportunity for volume growth in disc drive shipments as the Xbox attracts a large portion of this audience.

Brian Dexheimer

We now believe PC shipments will not show any growth from the prior year and will show a decline for the full fiscal year 2002.

John Connors

Mobile phone shipments in the first quarter are likely to be flat or better than those in the fourth quarter on launches of new handset models.

Derek Lam

Consumers want their content portable, and the 79 percent increase in shipments of mobile disk drives into consumer devices in 2005 over 2004 is evidence of this dynamic. IDC attributes this growth to a combination of innovative disk drive designs and effective integration of HDD technology into consumer devices by companies like Toshiba.

John Rydning

If there is significant damage to coffee stocks, it could impact supply. If not, it will just delay shipments.

Joe Derupo

Despite rising fuel prices, devastating weather events and a difficult market environment, Chrysler Group products continued to deliver quarterly gains in market share, retail sales and shipments.

Tom Lasorda

They held Mac shipments and even increased it slightly year over year in the midst of an architectural change without having to cut prices.

Barry Jaruzelski

When the Midwest harvest gets into full swing and whether they'll be able to handle grain shipments then, that's going to be the true test.

Terry Francl

We do not think there is a mode shift (from air to ground shipments, ... We believe that the express-intensive businesses are the ones that have been punished the most in the recession and the slow recovery.

Alan Graf

After Christmas we had two crises. The problems in Nigeria had a short fuse and there was an immediate drop in shipments while the situation in Iran has a much longer fuse.

Sarah Emerson

We strongly believe that Dell will start AMD-based system shipments as early as the second half of 2006.

Piper Jaffray

Our problem was we got our [prices] a little high and we had to bring them back in line. We had a decline in cereal shipments that was offset by price realisation on cereals, so our overall cereal sales were flat.

Steve Sanger

We're hopeful this unfortunate matter can be quickly resolved so we can continue rebuilding our export business in Japan. Our shipments to Japan have been steady since the market reopened. However, as expected, volumes have been limited because of Japan's import restrictions.

Gary Mickelson

A decline in shipments following the holiday quarter is expected of mature markets, and the handheld devices market is no different. After nine consecutive quarters of year-over-year decline, many are wondering how long this trend will continue, and whether the market will see a reverse.

Ramon Llamas

We've been told we would get some shipments in December, they would not be dependable, and that in January we would get all we need.

Marty Heires

The list for exotic anoles or lizards found in Florida is increasing yearly. Most of these animals have pet trade connections, with additional entry opportunities due to cargo stowaways, plant industry and freight shipments and hurricanes.

Chris Koeppel

We had a record-breaking weekend with nearly half of initial shipments sold, with many stores selling completely out of stock.

Craig Kornblau

You should always look at the economies of scale. Even if the United States has the same restrictions, it's got the market. There's a difference between 30 containers worth of shipments and 15 cases a year.

Richard Vuylsteke

Corporate customers are choosing the Microsoft platform. Microsoft Office, SQL Server and Exchange all reached new highs this quarter, with shipments of all server applications nearly doubling in the past year.

Bob Muglia

The exports earning forecast for 2006-2007 mainly reflects increased export shipments of iron ore, liquefied natural gas (LNG), grains and oilseeds in response to strong demand in Australia's export markets.

Brian Fisher

We're well established as a company that services the UK parts market but to find success with international shipments to a country like China is especially pleasing given the current import climate. It proves that the UK has a lot to offer - if it looks for opportunities in the right places.

Alan Johnston

We fed cattle for a long time. Dad has a good eye for sorting cattle. I was always proud of him. We sold choice cattle. Several of our shipments were 100 percent choice. That doesn't happen to very many people.

Dean Nielsen

Gas shipments are now down by more than 25 per cent after a 5 to 10 per cent fall in the morning so starting tomorrow, we're ordering big consumers to switch to oil.

Sandor Kantor

With a growing number of HDTV channels to be delivered by satellite pay-TV providers in 2006, those pay-TV providers are looking to the higher capacity enabled by DVB-S2 for more efficient HD channel delivery. In 2009, we expect satellite set-top boxes with next-generation advanced modulation technologies to account for 30% of the worldwide satellite set-top box unit shipments.

Michelle Abraham

Exports to Asia are growing on demand for electronic parts, while exports to the United States are growing on shipments of cars.

Takumi Tsunoda

DHL customers are increasingly looking for morning deliveries of their time-sensitive shipments to Asia. This new service offers a unique connection between more than 100 cities in 22 European countries and the business centers of Asia-Pacific.

Bill Blomquist

That was our main focus, getting the shipments out to wherever they need to go.

Robert Jones

Like everybody else, we have heightened concern about who we release information to. We will provide information on hazardous shipments to emergency responders and bona fide public agencies that have a need to know, and we are cooperating and coordinating with emergency response, safety and security agencies more closely than ever now.

Bob Sullivan

I'd like to see it go gold (U.S. shipments in excess of 500,000 copies) and I think it will.

Gareth Jones

Momentum in the blade market continues, with shipments growing by 60 percent from 2004 to 2005. While IBM only has 20 percent of the x86 market, they benefit more from the shift to blade systems, given their dominance there.

John Humphreys

What makes local players reluctant to go global is partly the fact that there are no ports that are able to handle direct shipments. The country's exporters are therefore at the mercy of port operators in Singapore and Malaysia.

Oentoro Surya

It's a market that has been really difficult for us to get our arms around. We have no real way to track the number of copies of Linux that are installed. If a person downloads a copy from site, they could wind up installing Linux on one machine or a thousand machines. What we can keep track of is the money generated by commercial shipments.

Dan Kuznetsky

Some of the Canadian exporters have been ensuring their shipments are in compliance. Others, however, are continuing to circumvent both Canadian law and U.S. resource law by harvesting (illegal lobster) ... and then attempting to import them into the United States.

Mark Oswell

Samsung SDI's margins are under pressure despite growing shipments because plasma panel prices are falling sharply.

Jeff Kim

The number of product shipments by Japanese companies is far below of top ranking suppliers' figures.

Takenori Ugari

Increased demand for wireless communication products, PC chipsets and LCD drivers in the computer segment was the key driver for the growth. Higher shipments of leading-edge technologies were also a primary reason for the 2 percent sequential increase in blended ASP. As a result, our Q4 revenue grew 16.5 percent and gross profit increased 68.3 percent sequentially.

Jackson Hu

The exports earning forecast for 2006-07 mainly reflects increased export shipments of iron ore, LNG, grains and oilseeds in response to strong demand in Australia's export markets.

Brian Fisher

I'd have to say that in the US, even though there's widespread resistance, we just haven't seen the huge numbers that some of these countries have. That may still be to come if shipments were to start, for example.

Kevin Kamps

We promised shipments and we made good on this promise.

Hans Deppe

Combining the data on construction spending, manufacturing inventories, capital goods shipments, and wholesale inventories released since the GDP report, we now see fourth quarter GDP being revised up to 1.5 percent from the advance estimate of 1.1 percent.

Ted Wieseman

The price for moving a shipment rose about $1 a day. We send out 350 shipments daily, so that is a significant increase.

Tim Davis

Slate tablets accounted for 24% of all tablet shipments in 2005, and Motion Computing maintained a dominant position with 35% of that market share in the US.

David Daoud

Our strong first quarter results and guidance for sequentially higher daily shipments and gross margin for the second quarter provide more evidence of the progress Fairchild is making at improving the quality of our business. I'm personally excited to be part of this great team and to help lead the powerful transformation that is underway at Fairchild.

Mark Frey

While consumer confidence is beaten down at present, a strong influx of public and private rebuilding dollars for the Gulf will in large part offset the negative effect of higher energy costs. We are currently projecting that U S trailer shipments in 2005 will be around 253,000 units, with containers, chassis and dollies adding another 36,000 units.

Kenny Vieth

In the third quarter, we achieved all-time records in company revenue and unit shipments across all of our major product lines.

Paul Otellini

The winning bidders should make shipments through sea, rail or land routes within 15 days of the opening of L/C (letter of credit).

Abdul Malik

For the importers, this has been a race to the dock to try to get shipments in as fast as possible. Most of the major categories are closed.

Laura Jones

It's a shame that as hard as everyone worked to have this market reopened that we had something like this so soon. We have every reason to believe the halt will be short and we can get our shipments going again.

Gene Hall

Inventories were getting burned down heavily in January and February and that should continue into March. Chip shipments should be reflecting true demand in the second quarter.

Eric Ross

We anticipate our sales in future quarters returning to predominately regular-priced shipments. Therefore, we believe our sales increases will normalize at a much more moderate growth rate.

Ernie Johnson

Keep in mind that auto shipments and sales tend to be quite volatile. They've been really going up and down pretty wildly over the last few months, and so I'd be hesitant to read too much into any one reading.

Eric Lascelles

Given that less than one million of these motherboards have been shipped, we do not foresee the reserve being above a few hundred million. The timing of the reserve will match when the shipments were made, resulting in a restatement of first quarter 2000 results.

Erika Klauer

This is a phenomenon we have observed over recent weeks in particular, and it is growing. There have been some delays (of food shipments) and it is felt by the people.

Eric Falt