Word: backlog
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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TWELVE months ago the Harvard University Press was struggling through the most turbulent period in its 60-year history. Saddled with a mammoth $379,000 deficit, a storm of emotional repercussions from the abrupt dismissal of its director, a disorganized and inefficient warehouse and delivery system, and a backlog of near-unsalable books, the Press was in a precarious position. Not only was its financial and competitive status under fire, but its reputation as the exemplar of university presses in the country was endangered as well...
...press to one particular thing. First of all, the changeover of warehousing and shipping procedures from control by the Harvard Computer center to Technical Impex Corporation of Lawrence has certainly improved the filling of orders and has reduced the Press's costs considerably. Secondly, clearance of the backlog of old titles via the annual Memorial Hall book sale brought $52,000 last year and reduced the cumbersome inventory. Thirdly, the Press staff has been drastically cut back from 144 in 1971 to 69 this year. The cutback has both increased efficiency and reduced expense. The reduction in staff will save...
...muster the necessary technology to defeat the Nazis in World War II and, more recently, to beat the Russians to the moon because it was able to build on a vast foundation of basic research that had been done for decades in university and commercial labs. If this backlog is not replenished, the U.S. may be unable to meet some future scientific challenge...
...Cambridge City Council last night directed the city's Rent Control Board to meet daily until it has completed its backlog of cases...
Clearly, the system is out of joint, and neither Mr. Nixon's statistics nor Life's bright photographs can prove otherwise. Eight years of Eisenhower non-government have left an imposing backlog of business unfinished or never begun, and Mr. Nixon seeks to forestall any real action now with the shibboleth of "state and local initiative" and the bogeymen of "socialized medicine" and "Federal control of education." He points with pride to statistics showing Republican accomplishments in, for instance, school and hospital construction...