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...case was originally scheduled to go to court April 8, 2002, but due to a court backlog, there has been an indefinite postponement. The next scheduled date is a July 2 meeting with the judge to update him on the matter. In the legal world though, the case is still young, and it could be years before it gets resolved in court...
...Focusing strictly on the maintenance backlog is a band-aid approach that has been tried for years but does not solve the problem in the long run,” said NCPA president Thomas Kiernan in a press release...
...scenario, but this was worse than we had planned for," says Norman Gilchrist, head of global operations. Yet within 12 hours of the attacks, the bank--assisted by its Plano, Texas-based computer service provider EDS--had processed 19,000 transactions worth $14.3 billion, or nearly 70% of its backlog...
...still in their infancy" at many of the company's other divisions. Rather than just sell aircraft engines, for instance, GE can help airlines maintain them, even remotely monitoring performance from the ground while the jets are in the air. Power systems, currently enjoying a $40 billion order backlog, can work with utilities to maximize efficiency and eventually offer forecasting technology to better predict electricity demand. Medical, which Immelt transformed from a $4 billion imaging-equipment vendor into a $7 billion, full-fledged systems provider, not only sells MRI machines to hospitals but also monitors the hardware over the Internet...
...torched and properties smashed. Though Oldham has quieted down, race relations are likely to remain contentious issues even after the election. Says Chris Myant, of the publicly funded Commision for Racial Equality (C.R.E.), "While you have a picture of significant success in some areas, you still have a vast backlog of problems pulling down a number of groups, and you still have a high degree of racial prejudice among some white members of the public...