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...subcontractors, and at countless supporting businesses. Other countries commonly subsidize their airframe industries, Lockheed supporters argued, and even the U.S. does so indirectly, through lucrative contracts for military planes that are forerunners of commercial jets. Said Senator Tower: "Hell, Lockheed is a company with $4 billion in backlog and has just turned a profit [$8.3 million in this year's first quarter] under tight management. That makes them a highly secure risk so far as I'm concerned...
...charges against any criminal defendants, except accused murderers, who have not been tried within six months of arrest through no fault of their own. They will also be freed on bail or their own recognizance if their trials have not begun within three months. Designed to reduce a scandalous backlog in criminal cases, the new rules are necessary, said Fuld. "if the rights to which both the accused and the state are entitled are to be made more meaningful...
Nixon has already received 5000 telegrams and there is a backlog of 20,000 waiting to be transmitted. They are running 100 to 1 in support of Calley, Ziegler said...
...their weekly pay, which now runs from $36 to $66 (the Post Office offered 8%), had lost nearly $432 per man. The Post Office has suffered a net loss of nearly $72 million, and it is estimated that it will take at least six weeks to clear up the backlog of mail...
...Gandin attributed the recent upsurge in indictments to the backlog in cases caused by the change of personnel in the U.S. Attorney's office two years ago. "When you get a change in national administration, you get a change in personnel and you get a backlog," said Gandin. This backlog takes time to clear up, he added, since "you don't present cases and get them cleared up in three days...