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...budgets than Stockman had asked for. The Museum Services Administration, which Stockman had sought to eliminate, received $9.6 million. "Considering where we could have been with some of these things, we escaped in pretty good shape," says Richard G. Leahy, associate dean for research and the allied institutions. The backlog of grant applications is actually slightly up from last year at this time, he reports, and few professors anticipate immediate crises. "Sheer inertia (in the federal grant process) will tide us over for this year and perhaps the next; the danger will be in the future, when more cuts could...
...level of slightly more than 1 million, less than half the record rate of 2.5 million set in January 1972. Further depressing the market is the growing inventory of unsold completed homes, enough for 9.3 months of sales at the current pace. This is second only to the record backlog of 12.4 months in April 1980. Sluggish starts have idled construction crews, slowed demand for everything from roofing nails, cement and lumber to sashes, sills and sand, and generally contributed to the slowdown in the U.S. economy...
...around $4 billion worth of spare parts; that is a major reason why 40% of the 563 U.S. F-15 fighter planes are unable to fly at any given moment. Even the Strategic Air Command, all of whose bombers should be ready to take off instantly, has a lengthening backlog of undone maintenance work. The Army's antitank gunners have so little ammunition that they can fire only one live round a year in training exercises. There are no figures for how far the Reagan budgets will go to solve these problems...
There are more than 240,000 Americans in uniform in West Germany stationed at three dozen bases that are supposedly part of NATO'S front-line defense. Yet the Pentagon's $20 billion facilities in that country are woefully obsolete and inadequate. The maintenance backlog for U.S. forces in West Germany has reached $1.3 billion. Soldiers live and work in conditions that could cause riots in U.S. prisons. The G.I.s, fortunately, do not riot. They just quit the Army at the end of their tours. When the plum job of command sergeant major opened at scenic, historic Heidelberg...
...leading supplier of parts for the U.S. Army's 155-mm Howitzer field gun, makes components for the cruise missile, and is the world's leading producer of industrial robots. In the past eight months, a lack of skilled labor has ballooned Condec's order backlog by 37% to $288 million. Says Condec Chairman Norman I. Schafler: "It has become virtually impossible to get any tool-and diemakers. Industry has consumed its pool of skills like a diminishing oil well...