Word: backlog
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...parks. In March the Senate approved a bill to boost the government's cut and open contracts to fair competition. The House is on the verge of following suit. Payments would be earmarked for the parks, which would help reduce the park system's $2.2 billion backlog of maintenance and repairs...
Cole also says the recon project has been critical for the efficient cataloguing process of both Hilles' and Lamont's collections. Prior to the conversion, there was a "backlog" of books which had not been catalogued, Cole says...
PERSONNEL. The boat people will probably be interviewed by the Immigration and Naturalization Service, already burdened with a backlog of 400,000 refugee applications. Immigration officials in Haiti came under fire last August when one of the INS's own internal monitors publicized the ineptitude and anti- asylum bias he observed in Port-au-Prince. He was sacked but later reinstated...
Eugene E. Kim '96, the president of the Harvard Computer Society, said the new set-up will "prevent the mail backlog that's been plaguing HASCS for the last three to four months...
Asylum seekers. Until a few years ago, applications were rare, totaling 200 in 1975. Suddenly, asylum is the plea of choice in the U.S. and around the world, often as a cover for economic migration. U.S. applications were up to 103,000 last year, and the backlog tops 300,000 cases. Under the present asylum rules, practically anyone who declares that he or she is fleeing political oppression has a good chance to enter the U.S. Chinese are almost always admitted, for example, if they claim that China's birth-control policies have limited the number of children they...