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...sales--a hearty 5.18 million annualized--show an industry that, thankfully, doesn't know when to quit; odd, since housing often leads the downhill charge into recession. Construction giants such as Centex and KB Home continue to expand, thanks to consolidation, low mortgage rates and productivity gains. An order backlog means no housing glut this round: spec building has been a no-no since the S&L blowout, and many towns, already sprawling, are now persnickety about development...
...child into one of the morgue's Japanese-made freezer trays at 3[Degrees]C. He pulled off the green mask he wears over his bushy gray beard as he works on the cadavers and went to his office to catch up on his death reports. He had a backlog...
Turkel says she does not blame D'Alessandro for working only "intermittently" to fulfill the committee's requests but says she worried about the effect of the backlog...
Cambridge resident Mario Davila, for instance, immigrated from El Salvador 17 years ago. He says that a backlog of paperwork has left him waiting 15 years for citizenship. All the while, he says he has waited for the chance to vote in school committee elections...
...There's no mail backlog here," said Berry, who is in charge of mail forwarding. "It comes in and goes...