21.   The company said demand for PCs remains strong, aside from temporary inventory problems.

22.   The company said in the past that holiday sales were strong and that it had fixed its inventory problems.

23.   The drastic revision suggests far more than a short-term inventory problem.

24.   The inventory problem will hurt earnings in the first half, said the Greensboro, North Carolina-based company.

25.   The room-size, high-resolution printers eliminate the returns and inventory problems that often plague conventional publishers.

26.   A timeworn hallmark of globalized trade, the method minimizes warehousing costs and inventory problems.

27.   The clothing retailer warned it would report a fourth-quarter loss and said it would have to restate its previous three quarters because of inventory recording problems.

28.   In a statement issued in Purchase, New York, International Paper blamed the disappointing performance on low prices and inventory problems at the beginning of the year.