Word: backlog
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...slightly more authority than the average metropolitan police magistrate. Some of them sat only four hours a day, leaving plenty of time for drinking. Collectively, they bumbled through a mere 130 felony trials a year, plus uncounted misdemeanor cases. With the crime explosion of the late '60s, the backlog grew to 5,422 felonies. A person charged with a felony waited an average of 4½ months to enter a plea, and the average time from arraignment to judgment was 13½ months...
...there are still complaints about the quality of its justice, but most of them are of a totally different kind. And they come from the opposite side of the color line. It took a crash program begun in 1969 and as many as 40 visiting judges to cut the backlog down to manageable proportions. Now the number of permanent judges has been increased to 20. And eight of them, including one woman, are black...
...Tightened up administration of the program. Before Simon took over, regional branches of the Office of Petroleum Allocation, understaffed and lacking clear guidance from Washington, had built up a staggering backlog of 15,000 unanswered letters and calls from fuel customers anxious to know just how much oil they would be allowed to buy. The harried staff in the New York regional office took phones off the hooks so that no callers could get through. Simon installed experienced administrators in the offices and issued guidelines that have enabled them to reduce the backlog of unanswered letters...
...error when contacted yesterday. "The calls will come out of the computer as unlocated tolls and will be investigated and rebilled to the proper people," she said. She said that it may require several months for the extent of the charges to be known due to a backlog of such calls at the phone company...
...fiscal year 1972, the Equal Employment Commission received 38,840 complaints and expects 45,000 more this year. It now has a backlog of 53,410 cases, 43,101 of which are pending investigation...