Word: backlog
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Since perusing back exams gives students that certain measure of confidence that goes with experience, an accessible backlog of tests is a practical idea. But after a few days of manhandling during the reading period, they become hopelessly jumbled. Unless the exam crammer is very lucky or takes some obscure course, he can spend more time finding the test he wants than he needs to look it over. The one he wants is either stolen or on the floor or stuffed into some other year's bound exam volume...
Furbush announced that the state January call would only be for 460 men, instead of the ordinary 1,800, because of a large backlog of inductees...
...January national total is 60,000 and ordinarily Massachusetts' quota would be 1,800. But with a heavy backlog of voluntary enlistments in the state, smaller demands can be made on the Selective Service system. At the present time 10,000 men make up the backlog, which means that the number of inductees can be considerably decreased...
...lower the quality of the judiciary. Rather a 29-month wait for true justice than a swift and slipshod treatment of individual rights and liberties, say the university savants. In any event, they point out, increased effort by the present number of solons will probably eliminate the court backlog within twenty or thirty years...
...heat to work turning the turbine, it cooled the air by expanding it, shot the air into the cockpit. As rearmament got under way, Garrett began turning out a total of 700 accessory products. With the Navy order for the self-starter, Garrett Corp. has a $120 million backlog, enough to keep 5,500 workers on three shifts busy for at least the next three years...