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...million this year for the City of Cambridge, Teso says. Collecting that revenue has become easier in recent years, because the city got the rights in 1982 to collect fines itself. Previously the city traffic courts had collected the fines, but the court had run into a huge backlog, according to Teso...
...backlog of sell orders has accumulated from Friday, when damage from one of Britain's worst windstorms kept many dealers home. That day's selling gusts from New York make things even worse. Says Christopher Dark, a manager of Salomon Brothers' London branch: "I keep thinking about the little man with the sign saying THE END OF THE WORLD IS NIGH...
Pickens may have targeted Boeing precisely because of its depressed stock price: currently at 53, well below its estimated real value of at least 75. While the company has a lucrative backlog of nearly $30 billion in aircraft orders, earnings are in a slump because of price wars in the airliner business and the high costs of developing a new generation of passenger jets...
...rush then began among fledgling launchers to help clear the world cargo backlog and carve out a piece of future business. In the U.S., aerospace giants Martin Marietta, McDonnell Douglas and General Dynamics, all longtime manufacturers of the rockets used by NASA and the U.S. Air Force, are determined to capture a share of the new market. Space agencies in the Soviet Union and China as well as Japan are also gearing up to provide launching services...
These tidings came amid the worst possible circumstances. Since the Philadelphia judiciary already had ten vacancies, the suspensions leave the city with nearly a quarter of its bench empty. Even before the suspensions, ( the case backlog in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas had soared from 6,000 to 9,000 in three months. Since new judicial appointments could be delayed by interparty squabbling in the state senate, the situation may get worse before it gets better...