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...entire case has had serious repercussions for the medical community. Because of a backlog of cases in the state licensing board and a regulation that permits doctors to practice while their cases are under review. Hussain was able to obtain a job at Buffalo Children's Hospital even after his conviction...
...critics in Congress, including some Republicans. The leaks have made Gorsuch feel even more embattled. She has taken the offensive against the EPA's much praised first decade, claiming a tradition of "mismanagement and no management." Some points are valid. When she took office there was a backlog of more than 1,000 modifications of various state plans to reduce pollution, all requiring federal approval; that accumulation has been cut by half...
...keep its assembly lines full. The company sold $2.2 billion worth of DC-10 and DC-9 aircraft last year, or about 37% of the firm's $6.1 billion in revenues. Analysts expect the commercial share of sales to shrink due to slowing air traffic and a rising backlog of government orders. The company's military hardware includes Harpoon antiship missiles and F-15 Eagle jet fighters. But McDonnell Douglas will not be dropping out of commercial aviation. It has signed a memo of understanding with Fokker aircraft of The Netherlands to study the possibility...
...procedure, the U.S. operates under a temporary dispensation called an indult. The indult was granted by Pope Paul VI in 1969 as an experiment, because the American hierarchy requested help on its huge backlog of cases. (Canada got a less sweeping indult in 1974; Belgium, England and Scotland had indults which have now expired...
Though Nicholson will not reveal profit figures, he says that BIW is doing much better than it was at the time of its last public accounting in 1979, when it earned $28.2 million during the first nine months of the year. The firm has a defense order backlog of $800 million...