Word: backlog
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Reebok had some lean years. And next to fleet-footed Nike, its problems glowed in the dark. But management got back in training and since 1995 has cut expenses, sold the underperforming Avia division, bought back 23% of outstanding stock and embarked on an ambitious new-product campaign. Its backlog of footwear orders is now up for the first time in two years...
...lack of federal workers has caused a significant backlog in processing for federal grants and loans, says Vice President for Government, Community and Public Affairs James H. Rowe...
...medical system, which claims a backlog of $870 million in unmet needs for equipment and $800 million in deferred maintenance and repairs, will lay off 5,000 to 10,000 employees next year, and not all of them will be bureaucrats. As it is, the care-giving staff is stretched so thin on some wards that quadriplegics complain of spending days in bed for lack of anyone to help them up. Gerald Barba, 39, a peacetime Navy veteran who broke his neck in a swimming accident, praises the dedication of the staff at the VA Hospital in the Bronx...
Making the backlog worse is a shortage of several key parts--from microchips to modems--Apple buys from outside vendors to put in its computers. The company has been turning to alternate suppliers and trying to allocate its inventory better, but "we still expect demand will outstrip supply until January," says Apple spokeswoman Betty Taylor...
Despite the backlog that awaits him, Rudenstine claims to be "revved up" and recuperated...