At one point, an opponent donned a "Stop Pre" T-shirt to counter fans, dubbed "Pre's People, " wearing "Go Pre" shirts.
Some analysts said that expectations had become overheated, and noted that the five-million-unit figure doesn't include pre-ordered iPhones that Apple has shipped to customers but haven't yet been signed for.
"We have a lot of work to do in the high-performance area and I won't pre-empt the review, " said the former Wales fitness coach, who left an elite performance role with the New Zealand Rugby Union to join the Ospreys.
Now, looking back, I am really grateful that she didn't pre-program a way of writing into my head.
"If they don't pre-judge the situation they could end up with thousands of people losing their benefits with little notice, " she said.
However, one employee said that anybody who hadn't pre-ordered a unit would be hard-pressed to find one at any shop before Christmas.
By the way, given the number of times the assembled politicians told us they couldn't pre-empt the Silk Commission's findings, I hope Mr Silk feels thoroughly un-pre-empted this evening.
As we've seen with Palm, announcing a hugely hyped product with no concrete launch path and no way to get dollars funneled in with pre-orders doesn't typically turn out well -- or, as well as it could have.
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Whether it is the 25-year-old freelancer with a pre-existing condition who can't purchase insurance in the individual market, the 20-year-old line cook who doesn't receive insurance through her job or the 28-year-old bank employee who is insured but is worried about the rising costs of premiums, young Americans experience the deficiencies of our health care system on a daily basis.
On the downside, Blogger presents images in default formats that are small and formal looking (a bit stuffy for a travel-themed blog), and its templates or pre-made formats aren't as stylishly and colourfully-designed as those offered by its rivals.
Buy-out executives themselves admit that performance will be more ordinary in future, since debt, which powered private-equity firms' profits, won't quickly return to pre-crisis levels.
Contemporary adolescents and pre-adolescents often don't do much of anything except go to school.
Unless you hopped online within the first hour or so last Friday, pre-ordered iPhones aren't expected to arrive for weeks.
For the Amaze 4G, however, the pre-loaded shenanigans don't quite incite frustration the way Verizon's crapware-heavy devices normally would.
The group's proposal would allow 529 plan account owners or beneficiaries to take out money penalty-free to cover hurricane-related expenses, and would waive penalties for victims who took out money pre-Katrina but weren't able to use it for college because of the hurricane.
If you haven't placed a pre-order, you can pick one up at the source link below.
It's also bizarre that Microsoft isn't opening up pre-orders on these right away.
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Chris Rudge says he doesn't want to pre-empt their work, but makes it clear that the other solutions may be more immediate.
Let's get this out the way right here and now: to the best of our knowledge, Apple doesn't really provide pre-release units to accessories partners -- even the big ones -- to help them get their products out the door faster when new gear drops.
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Okay, so JMA's newest pre-quake warning system doesn't cover as much ground as SMS alerts, but with only 10 to 20 seconds of available panic time before an earthquake hits, we'd probably be toppling over one another before we could even find our cellphone anyway.
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We know it's been a rough couple of nights for you folks who didn't get your pre-order on (or got the shaft, even so) trying to hunt down a Playstation 3 without becoming the hunted, but there's an off chance that CompUSA may still be able to save your sanity.
Granted, we weren't able to seriously tax it due to having no internet connection and no pre-loaded HD multimedia, but casual users probably won't notice a significant boost in screen transitions.
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Like most pre-installed apps, they can't be uninstalled and they take up precious storage space.
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He got a new one but the new employer imposed a pre-existing condition exclusion and wouldn't cover the asthma.
Pre-order her book, Can't Think Straight: A Memoir of Mixed-Up Love, or cyber-stalk her at kiriblakeley.com or on Facebook.
In other news, tipster Robert K. just got word that his Play.com pre-order of the Wii won't be honored at launch.
If you have a sweet pre-crowdfunding hardware project and haven't entered our Insert Coin: New Challengers contest yet, what are you waiting for?
And unless everybody does their part, many of the insurance reforms we seek, especially requiring insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions, just can't be achieved.
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