Word: backlog
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Consulars advised of delays in visa processing of up to three or four weeks. But as backlog dragged on for months, students like Pang faced the reality of not being allowed to enter the country in time for classes...
...foreign researcher’s interests match those on the list, his or her visa is subject to extra scrutiny—a process that accounts for considerable backlog and, in some cases, prevents scientists from meeting their research objectives...
Shortly after he signed a $60 million contract with Warner Bros. in 1992, Prince scrawled the word slave on his face, changed his name to a symbol and announced that he was retiring from recorded music. The problem was that he had a backlog of 450 songs he felt the world wanted to hear, and Warner Bros. simply refused to flood the market with that much product. Commercial suicide, the company said. In one of his last public acts before locking himself away in Paisley Park, his hermitage just west of Minneapolis, Minn., Prince stood before an awards-show audience...
...asks someone on the street after arriving by bus in the bleak coastal town. He never meets Ladif, and no one seems to know for sure if he even exists. But his name opens doors. Still, when Abdi Salan finds his man, he's told there's a backlog of people waiting to depart. "Come back another time," the man tells him. So Abdi Salan heads back to Tripoli, where he lies low with the other Somalis who warn him that Libyan police are getting more violent toward black-skinned Africans. It will be more than three months, and several...
...talkathon on the Senate floor to harangue the Democrats on the judges they blocked. The gabfest infuriated Daschle, who claimed Frist double-crossed him. Daschle had agreed to Frist's request to keep the Senate working through Veterans Day so it would have more time to clear its usual backlog. Only later did he learn that Frist also planned to use the week's extra time for a Republican telethon to promote conservative justices. Daschle dismissed it as a "colossal waste of time"--the judges remained blocked--and Democratic whip Harry Reid accused Frist of "amateur leadership." Many Republican Senators...