Word: backlog
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weeks ago to use his new re-organizational powers to consolidate anti-job-discrimination programs now scattered among 18 separate agencies is an important step towards strengthening a series of civil rights laws enacted in the 1960s. The problem with those laws has been enforcement: there is presently a backlog of 100,000 unresolved job-bias cases and the diffused jurisdiction is in part to blame...
...work force of 8.7 million people. In Seattle, Boeing, the world's largest maker of commercial airliners, now has 53,000 workers on its payroll. That figure is well below the record 101,000 it employed in 1968, even though Boeing has a $5 billion order backlog for its 747 jumbo jets, 727 midrange airliners and the radar/computer systems for the Air Force's new AW ACS (for Airborne Warning and Control System) surveillance aircraft and cruise missiles...
...more and more aware that a big part of the game in this town is on the Hill." Besides, Moore argues, some friction between the White House and Congress is inevitable during the transition from a Republican to a Democratic Administration. "Every Democrat on the Hill had a backlog of people he wanted jobs for," Moore says. His office still gets 1,000 calls a day (down from 2,000 nine months ago) for everything from jobs to appointments with the President. He has had to learn by experience which ones he must personally return or risk bruising powerful egos...
...land, their concerns and dreams shaped by their environment. Other Americans worry about urban blight, street crime, racial trouble, chronic unemployment. But not the Northwest. Its economy, based on the renewable resources of forests and farms, is expanding strongly. Its biggest manufacturer, Boeing, has a $5 billion backlog of orders. Its two major cities?Seattle (pop. 496,000) and Portland (377,000)?are bustling, clean and eminently livable. There are too few blacks for any real racial problems, and the small Indian minority?.8% of the population?is fighting in the courts, not the streets, for such goals...
Such speculation is common in California and is beginning to appear in other states. Indeed, California is a housing Oz unto itself; its population is still growing faster than that of any other large state except Texas; the recession bit especially deep in California, creating a huge backlog of demand, and strict environmental requirements severely limit the land available for housing. Prices are starting to level off, but the level is in the stratosphere. In platinum-plated Beverly Hills, one cynical real estate broker exclaims: "Oh, I have such a dog on the market right now! Come to my Sunday...