Word: backlog
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...effect of a clerical strike is extremely cumulative," she added, referring to a backlog of paperwork building...
...from going to the court in droves. Civil suits filed in federal courts, which outnumber criminal cases 4 to 1, increased from 87,321 to 138,770 between 1960 and 1978. Over 16,000 cases have been pending for more than three years in federal district courts, double the backlog ten years ago. "If court backlogs grow at their present rate, our children may not be able to bring a lawsuit to a conclusion within their lifetime," predicts Harvard Law School Professor Laurence Tribe. "Legal claims might then be willed on, generation to generation, like hillbilly feuds; and the burdens...
Airbus sales did not begin to take off until last year, when Eastern Air Lines bought 23 of the $33 million A300s. Since then the backlog of Airbus orders has doubled, to $6.3 billion; today the firm accounts for one out of three sales of new wide-bodied planes. Indeed, since last year, it has sold almost as many wide-bodies as Boeing and more than McDonnell Douglas and Lockheed. These two companies have run out of steam because neither has launched a new model for the short-to medium-haul market. Says the consortium's French president, Bernard...
...equally strong case can be made that the 1980s will be a golden decade. The fact that the U.S. has slipped behind means that it has a tremendous backlog of demand for capital projects, a huge amount of unmet needs for the investment that creates real wealth. If the nation now chooses policies that will unleash that investment, there will be a capital burst that can lift the U.S. to new peaks of material prosperity and geopolitical strength...
There is a tremendous backlog of demand for capital goods building up, but businessmen will be willing to buy and build only when they see that inflation has been curbed. They believe, with much justification, that Government spending is one of the root sources of the inflationary spiral that hurts all Americans. For both psychological and substantive reasons, narrowing the deficit and bringing the budget into balance are vital steps in slowing the rise in prices. During the '60s and early '70s, the budget exploded with a mass of social programs that were perhaps innovative and needed...