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...slightly more authority than the average metropolitan police magistrate. Some of them sat only four hours a day, leaving plenty of time for drinking. Collectively, they bumbled through a mere 130 felony trials a year, plus uncounted misdemeanor cases. With the crime explosion of the late '60s, the backlog grew to 5,422 felonies. A person charged with a felony waited an average of 4½ months to enter a plea, and the average time from arraignment to judgment was 13½ months...
...Tightened up administration of the program. Before Simon took over, regional branches of the Office of Petroleum Allocation, understaffed and lacking clear guidance from Washington, had built up a staggering backlog of 15,000 unanswered letters and calls from fuel customers anxious to know just how much oil they would be allowed to buy. The harried staff in the New York regional office took phones off the hooks so that no callers could get through. Simon installed experienced administrators in the offices and issued guidelines that have enabled them to reduce the backlog of unanswered letters...
...error when contacted yesterday. "The calls will come out of the computer as unlocated tolls and will be investigated and rebilled to the proper people," she said. She said that it may require several months for the extent of the charges to be known due to a backlog of such calls at the phone company...
...press to one particular thing. First of all, the changeover of warehousing and shipping procedures from control by the Harvard Computer center to Technical Impex Corporation of Lawrence has certainly improved the filling of orders and has reduced the Press's costs considerably. Secondly, clearance of the backlog of old titles via the annual Memorial Hall book sale brought $52,000 last year and reduced the cumbersome inventory. Thirdly, the Press staff has been drastically cut back from 144 in 1971 to 69 this year. The cutback has both increased efficiency and reduced expense. The reduction in staff will save...
...fiscal year 1972, the Equal Employment Commission received 38,840 complaints and expects 45,000 more this year. It now has a backlog of 53,410 cases, 43,101 of which are pending investigation...