Word: backlog
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...this time last year, about a dozen students were detained in their home countries as a result of a massive visa-processing backlog...
King Licorish arrived at her decision on April 1, still facing the backlog in rent and coping with the recession. She knew immediately that it was the right decision because the very next day she saw an upturn in sales that began quickly to make up the deficit...
...everything by the book. They claim that effective infection-control measures currently in place in hospitals mean that the load of new cases will soon decrease. Most of last week's reported spike, says Taiwan's Center for Disease Control chief Su Yi-jen, were the result of a backlog of 545 patients that had not been processed?meaning the victims were infected before new safety standards were introduced. "We're at the stage when we're about to come down," he says...
...customer of a brokerage firm, odds are that you signed an agreement saying that you would take any disputes to binding arbitration rather than to court. Arbitration cases are brought before the New York Stock Exchange or the National Association of Securities Dealers, and with the backlog of claims, a case filed now might not be heard for many months. Don't assume that you have a strong case just because you lost money in the market. To win money back, you would have to show, say, that you made decisions based on advice that turned out to be bogus...
...some instances, the volunteers said, men coming to register have been arrested for lacking documents that they had not yet received due to INS backlog...