Word: backlog
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...steep, capital spending has been retarded for years. Just to stay competitive in the world, the U.S. needs to put 12% of its G.N.P. into such investment, but the figure has been 10% since the early 1970s. Result: America's plant is aging and outdated, and a huge backlog of unmet demand for capital goods has built up. In the early 1980s, says Greenspan, capital investment will soar...
...thoroughly studied-ban on plea bargaining went into effect in Alaska in August 1975. A computer study released by the Alaska Judicial Council this summer found that in its first year, the ban was widely heeded by prosecutors. The result: longer sentences, as some hoped for, but no backlogs in criminal cases, as had been feared. In fact, such cases were disposed of faster after the ban went into effect (although, at the same time, a backlog began to develop in civil cases...
...become the American way of life, as court calendars stretch out like Depression breadlines. Months, even years, can pass before a suit is heard, much less appealed or resolved. So the achievement of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit is rare and laudable. While the backlog of cases piled up in the ten other U.S. Appeals Courts has risen since 1974 from 3,757 to 8,243, for the fifth year in a row the Second Circuit will have disposed of all cases that were ready for a hearing...
...pledged his government to a huge deficit-spending program, which includes $22 billion for improving Japan's long neglected highways, bridges and pollution controls. Another $10.5 billion is being spent for 550,000 sorely needed new housing units. As a consequence, consumer spending is reviving, the once mountainous backlog of inventories is fast being depleted, and the stage is set for a reasonably strong recovery...
...point where it can cover a case of nerves, a lingering depression, even chronic headaches. Disability claims are now swamping HEW, which has had to hire 650 administrative judges to hear all the appeals?more judges than the entire federal court system uses. Even so, there is a backlog of 133,860 cases. If their claims are rejected by HEW, people usually resort to the courts, where they often...