Word: backlog
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...encouraging private initiative in cooperative and individual enterprises. But the reform process has run up against bureaucratic resistance and opposition from traditional Communists, who see the profit motive as sinful backsliding into the evils of capitalism. A firm endorsement by the party conference will help break the bureaucratic backlog as well as reassure those who take their Marxism-Leninism too seriously...
...come from European customers, while Piaggio says it will sell 60% of its planes in North and South America. By some estimates, fewer than 8,000 corporate aircraft are in use today worldwide, but the industry is coming out of a decade-long slump, and there may be a backlog of pent-up demand...
...gloomier situation. When the Dow Jones industrial average plummeted 508 points on Oct. 19, it raised the specter of an economic recession and widespread joblessness. Fearful seniors -- joined by a smattering of overwrought underclassmen -- rushed to college placement offices in search of advice, sometimes creating such a backlog that students had to wait a month or more for an appointment with a counselor. Corporations grew just as edgy: some recruiters put campus visits on hold until they could sort out the aftereffects of the market meltdown...
Trainers say they are often unable to go out to team practices because they have such a large backlog of taping to do. As a result, Smith says she wishes "more grad students interested in being trainers helped us out with daily taping and routine treatments...
...greater thrust. The CF6 turbofan (current cost: $6 million each) has broken the hold Pratt & Whitney had with its JT9D on the giant Boeing 747. GE has boosted production of its most powerful version, the CF6-80C2, from 110 engines in 1987 to 260 this year to meet a backlog of nearly 500 orders...