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Hiding- and the various security devices that make it possible- has become a major growth industry. Automobile dealers sell armor-plated cars, mostly unobtrusive sedans, as fast as they arrive from the factory. Shops that specialize in converting existing cars into four-wheeled fortresses have a backlog of service orders (cost: $7,000 for a compact Fiat 127, $30,000 for a Rolls-Royce). Some 400 firms have assembled a private army of 20,000 security men and women who hire out as bodyguards to wealthy clients for $115 to $230 a day each. Even having a guard dog requires...
...last year, and in the process won many new converts. One result: Polaroid is now selling more cameras than before Kodak elbowed in. During 1975 Polaroid shipped 3.5 million cameras in the U.S., v. 4.5 million units last year, and plants are working three shifts to meet a large backlog of orders. As for Kodak last year, says President Colby H Chandler: "We sold more than 2 million Handles−all we could make." But much of the company's gain in instants was made at the expense of its conventional camera lines. One top Wall Street analyst reckons...
...prosecution record in the state of Texas," Cooksey modestly admits. But the taxpayers may be getting shortchanged overall. Since 1971, Cooksey's office has cadged five separate LEAA grants, totaling $245,801, to speed prosecutions and unclog court congestion. Result: while there were 799 case dispositions and a backlog of 1,149 cases in 1970, by 1976 there were only 587 dispositions and a whopping 2,400 cases pending. Overall, the LEAA cornucopia has pumped more than $2 million into the Texarkana, Texas, criminal justice system. Yet major crimes, numbered at 898 in 1971. jumped...
...Office: "The railroad system does not generate enough income to sustain itself. What gives first is maintenance, and it's getting worse." Despite a 10% increase in freight rates in 1974 and an annual expenditure of $9 billion in maintenance, the railroads since that year have reduced a backlog of $4.1 billion in needed repairs by only $1 billion...
...weeks ago to use his new re-organizational powers to consolidate anti-job-discrimination programs now scattered among 18 separate agencies is an important step towards strengthening a series of civil rights laws enacted in the 1960s. The problem with those laws has been enforcement: there is presently a backlog of 100,000 unresolved job-bias cases and the diffused jurisdiction is in part to blame...