At Thyssen Industrie, the company's capital goods unit, sales fell 13 percent to 5 . 9 billion marks, not including Thyssen Budd Automotive, because of the sale of Rheinische Kalksteinwerke and lower completed shipping orders.
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While many Web stores struggled to deliver gifts before Christmas, catalog merchants like L . L . Bean, J . Crew, and Eddie Bauer emerged among the top performers because of their experience in filling and shipping orders.
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It has saved money by moving about half of its shipping to the US Postal Service, which has become more competitive with leader UPS . And it has cut more fulfillment costs by packing and shipping orders on its own.
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Uncle Joe asks Danny to visit him at his scrapyard, to apologize for trying to bribe him, but the old man calls a number to place a shipping order to a company he finds out has been closed for 25 years.
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Julie Wainright, now the chief executive of Pets . com, said she learned her lesson when she spent a year running Reel . com, an on-line video store that was having trouble keeping track of its inventory and shipping orders on time.
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Amazon, for example, is joining forces with Toys'R'Us to set up a joint Web site for selling toys _ Amazon brings expertise in making an easy-to-use Web site and in filling and shipping orders and Toys'R'Us provides the right inventory of toys and games.
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Riding at anchor in Gravesend Bay off Brooklyn, a mile southeast of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, the 458-foot merchantman, Banner of October, has repeatedly requested supplies from its owner's American representative but has received inadequate stores of food, water and medicine, and no shipping orders.
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Emboldened by the fact that many retailers'deadlines for standard shipping had not expired ( at neimanmarcus . com, for example, I could place standard shipping orders as late as 1 p . m . Central time Thursday ( Dec . 16 ), I was determined to make progress.
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Burt Ballanfant, an attorney for Shell, said the company had stopped selling DBCP to any of the growers or countries named in the litigation well before the 1977 ban, though lawyers for the banana workers have shipping orders showing Shell subsidiaries delivering the product to Third World countries through 1981.
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The heart of the plan in many cases is likely to be arranging for more employees than normal to be on duty in the weeks before and after New Year, often to make sure a company can fall back on nonelectronic methods of business, such as taking shipping orders by phone.
