Word: backlog
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...backlog of murderers on death row in 1997 is helping to make this a record-setting year. Congress is getting in on the act too, by cutting legal aid for appeals. In the absence of any politician who dares supportthem, the dead men are increasingly walking the fast track to meet their makers...
...institutions in a position where they could do less with their resources, and the backlog of capital projects was getting longer not shorter," Hamill says...
With 10 minutes remaining in the two hours usually allotted for meetings, there was still a four-speaker backlog, and President Neil L. Rudenstine called for an extension of the meeting until...
...burrowed away on a new plan, known innocuously enough as the Service Center Replacement System, whose deadline for start-up was 1985. Instead 1985 was the year the great meltdown almost occurred. Because of computer bugs, a backlog of unprocessed returns (in Philadelphia more than 100 unopened envelopes containing returns were found in garbage cans) almost brought the entire system to a halt. "We came as close as you can to going out of business," says Gibbs, who took over as IRS Commissioner...
...court system struggling to get up to speed on divorce law could be another. Irish courts received one new judge, but no new staff to handle divorce claims and the yelps from clerical workers submerged in paperwork are already audible, notes Connelly. "There's going to be a huge backlog of cases...