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...heavy response from seniors eager to have their research published has provided the editors with a sufficient backlog for publication into next year. Two issues are scheduled for this Spring, with monthly publication planned beginning in the Fall...
...single municipal court to handle all normal litigation and criminal prosecution. This would help eliminate lengthy delays in felony cases that have hitherto been tried in federal court. The President wants ten more judges to be added and 40 assistant U.S. attorneys to press prosecution of the immense backlog of cases. To strengthen the public-defender program and provide for rehabilitation of criminals, Nixon will budget $700,000. He also recommended that the district hire 1,000 more police. "Increasing numbers of crimes," said Nixon, "are being committed by persons already indicted for earlier crimes, but free on pretrial release...
...fixed fee. Managers underestimated the devastating effects of inflation. They reckoned that construction costs would rise only 3% or 4% a year, but they have actually gone up about 12%. Result: losses on those jobs amounted to many millions of dollars last year. G.E. has a big backlog of $2 billion in orders for nuclear plants, but probably will not realize a profit on them for several years...
...huge backlog of heavy maintenance checks to perform and a large flight schedule to maintain, in which we qualified pilots and crews for transpacific flights to Honolulu. Mr. Nixon assured me that there wouldn't be another officer or man in the squadron who would work harder or support our mission better than himself. His enthusiasm was over powering. He had something special to give, but I couldn't immediately determine what it was. In about three months, my engineering officer recommended that the third shift be terminated - much to my sur prise. His explanation was that...
Snarl and Slowdown. For the year ahead, there is apprehension over the persistent paperwork backlog, which has snarled delivery of securities. Overruling a last-minute plea from the Securities and Exchange Commission to reconsider, the nation's stock exchanges decided to switch from Wednesday closings, in effect since June 12, to shorter hours. Five-day-a-week trading, with closings at 2 p.m. instead of 3:30 in New York, will resume this week. Some brokers share the SEC's fears that the most severe effects of the paperwork jam are yet to be felt. Industry leaders, however...