When not cooking, waiting tables or begging neighbors for vegetables that missed a supplier's weekly shipment, Ms. May found time for environmental work.

Prices start at $24 for six peaches, $30 for three pounds of Bing cherries and $34 for five pounds of apricots and climb to $700 or more for weekly shipments.

Members of that group received weekly shipments of nonsweetened drinks of their choice, including water and diet beverages.

Prior to the formal announcement, store employees saw weekly shipments shrink and delivery schedules went from 3 days per week to one.

Unita, a rebel movement that has been criticized for obtaining most of its arms from South Africa, also receives weekly shipments from a secret American airlift.

"The weekly shipment."

The description suggests that a weekly shipment is closer to a forecast-based rather than a just-in-time policy.

Just then, Gordon calls and tells him what Fox found: weekly shipments of hazardous waste.

Undoubtedly they would contain booklets and literature from The Coffin Press, one of the weekly shipments.

The concept is simple: club members pay several hundred dollars a year, and in some cases work on the farm or help advertise the club, in exchange for weekly shipments of produce during the growing season.